Dr. Claire Herrick
This episode is all about health and climate change. We hear from Dr. Claire Herrick, who taught me a bunch of things I did not know was happening with our health on our rapidly changing planet. From respiratory ailments to mosquitos bringing diseases like Dengue fever and Zika virus, Dr. Herrick gives a clear overview of the health risks we face. She along with Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz and Climate Stew commentator, Marvin Bloom, not only highlight serious health concerns, but also how the racial disparity in who is affected. Health, environmental justice, and Marvin in an oxygen tent.
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Music Credits
Over and Over from Five Song Demo by Mark Chadwick
Auditive Escape with Air Like Water, Coldness of Words, and Purple Vessel on the Conundrum LP
Skinless with Eclipse Outro from the Rooftops EP
Gregory Sheppard–Original composition for Uncle P
La Rose by Chenard Walcker on the Blessed album
Links
Yale Climate Connections: Climate Justice in Chicago's Little Village
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization website
Meet the woman who shut down Chicago’s dirty coal plants
Looking out for climate change in Chicago
People of color are already getting hit the hardest by climate change
Pollution’s racial divides
NYC Department of Health: Children and Asthma
