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Fossil Fuel Emissions and Children’s Health, with Frederica Perera
EHP: The Researcher's Perspective
English - May 29, 2009 16:00 - 7 minutes - 5.21 MB - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsNatural Sciences Science environmental health science natural sciences raleigh Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Children are generally more vulnerable to environmental insults because their bodies are still developing, but just as early exposures can cause lifelong adverse effects, so can early interventions produce lifelong benefits. In this podcast, Frederica Perera discusses the potential long-term benefits of reducing children's exposures to combustion emissions by mitigating modern society's reliance on fossil fuels. Perera is director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, at Columbia University in New York and the author of "Children Are Likely to Suffer Most from Our Fossil Fuel Addiction." Visit the podcast webpage to download a full transcript of this podcast.