Climate risks to health set to worsen inequity, harm children
LAURIE GOERING RISING global health risks driven by climate change will hit the poorest, most vulnerable people the hardest - and failure to prepare for those threats will mean more deaths and suffering, according to a leading environmental health scientist. From impoverished families living in flood-prone homes to women whose cultures require them to stay covered in extreme heat, climate impacts on health have "a strong equity component", said Kristie Ebi, a professor at the University of Washington's Center for Health and the Global Environment. Besides hiking dangers from deadly heat and spreading diseases, climate change will fuel a rise…