Climate Change, COVID-19 & Outbreaks in a Warming World
Warming Signs
English - March 24, 2020 04:30 - 20 minutes - 18.5 MB - ★★★★ - 127 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Nature climate change environmental policy impacts ecological oceans global warming weather legislation drought hurricanes Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As the world takes drastic action to stop a new threat, some are seeing strong parallels between the novel coronavirus and another adversary - climate change. Join Kait for a chat with Dr. Mona Sarfaty. Dr. Sarfaty has made it her mission to make the world aware of the consequences of climate change on our health. This week she and Kait delve into the relationship between infectious disease and climate change, and how the response to COVID-19 can offer lessons to those charged with protecting our planet.