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Global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival - Carl Sagan Focusing on health, climate, and their intersection.
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Nearly two-thirds of US pharmaceutical mfg facilities are located in disaster-prone areas, with 6,819 production sites affected by weather emergencies between 2019-2024. Hurricane Helene recently triggered nationwide IV fluid shortages after damaging a key facility.

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Threats of Weather Disasters for Drug Manufacturing Facilities in the US
This study assesses the frequency with which climate-related disaster events affected counties with US drug production facilities.
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Rolling back environmental protections means: higher healthcare costs, dirtier air, increased energy bills, & richer oil companies. #ClimateAction #EnvironmentalProtection
One of the most visible examples occurred in May 2025, when the U.S. government discontinued the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Billion-Dollar Disasters Database, a resource used by researchers, emergency planners, & policymakers to track high-cost weather events since 1980
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As the Trump administration guts the EPA and clean air act…

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Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.

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Major climate change reports are removed from U.S. websites
The White House, which was responsible for the assessments, said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law, but gave no further details.
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Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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Only 15 short years from now.

Right around the time when the AMOC collapses(causing devastating crop failures in northern latitudes) and ocean pH drops below the ability for oxygen producing phytoplankton to survive (collapsing the ocean food web leading to global starvation).

#ThanksExxonMobile
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This is the only way civilization will survive.

Unfortunately, the oligarchs have a stranglehold on the western governments that could enact such laws and have duped the voting masses. Their only goal is to see how much money they can accumulate before they die

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UN expert urges criminalizing fossil fuel disinformation, banning lobbying
Rapporteur calls for defossilization of economies and urgent reparations to avert ‘catastrophic’ rights and climate harms
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Congress is trying to kill new investment in solar and wind power.

Meanwhile global warming is accelerating.

This is a death wish, on a national and global scale.
The review also referenced research estimating that an individual may inhale around 69,000 microplastic particles every year.
Researchers found different types, with polypropylene and polyethylene terephthalate, also known as PET, being the most common. These materials are commonly used in food packaging and plastic bottles.
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In a new study, Yale researchers, including Profs. Xiaomei Ma and Kai Chen, found that ozone pollution, also called smog, and high temperatures together increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack. Learn more ⬇️
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Star music, Kavli kudos, and summertime heart risks
Researchers listen to “music” made by stars, consider the heart risks of hot, smoggy days, and earn kudos in geoscience, public health, and systems biology.
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Released last month, the forecaster combines weather data and epidemiological research with Mercer’s own health claims database to project costs over a ten-year span. It hones in on four specific perils — extreme heat, poor air quality, flooding and hurricanes

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Climate change will cost your healthcare plan. Analysts want to know how much.
Extreme weather, rising temperatures and increased air pollution all threaten employee health — but executives and finance teams may not be paying attention.
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