The health impacts of climate change aren’t on most Americans’ radars, with few Americans able to name a climate-related health impact, according to a new poll.
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Monday, December 15, 2014
The Health Impacts of Climate Change - Most people have no clue about them
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/15/3603519/health-impacts-climate-change-poll/
The health impacts of climate change aren’t on most Americans’ radars, with few Americans able to name a climate-related health impact, according to a new poll.
The poll,
released by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication, found
that though a “solid majority” — 63 percent — of Americans think climate
change is generally bad for people’s health, most aren’t able to list
any particular health impact of climate change. Only about one in four
poll respondents were able to list a specific climate-related impact,
such as asthma, lung diseases, or death as a result of an extreme
weather event. Fewer still could name a different health-related impact:
less than 5 percent listed things like allergies, vector-borne
diseases, or hunger related to crop failure.
The health impacts of climate change aren’t on most Americans’ radars, with few Americans able to name a climate-related health impact, according to a new poll.
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