If we say climate change, the first thing that pops into your heads is probably not the impact of toxic chemicals on the environment. Some people can probably name a chemical that contributes to climate change, whether that is carbon dioxide or methane. But what about many, many other chemicals that you are not as familiar with?
Yes, chemical contributions directly to climate change are important, but this interplay is not the only consequence of mixing chemicals and climate change/there’s a lot more going on. Climate change is altering how toxic chemicals impact our health and the health of the environment. What this means for us is that as the world warms, reducing our exposure to toxic chemicals becomes more & more important with each passing day.
Caring About Toxic Chemicals Can Help Minimize the Impact of Climate Change – and they do have significant effect on how climate change can impact you, me and the world. These impacts compound as more chemicals are produced or utilized. In 1970, the U.S. produced 50 million tons of synthetic chemicals.1In 1995, the number tripled to 150 million tons, and today, that number continues to increase.
Host Bernice Butler unpacks how Chemicals in our environment, toxic materials and climate change all interact and impact each other with Darya Minovi, Jacob Carter and Lynn Lafferty.
