From Evidence to Action: Protecting Health in a Warming World
Second Episode of the series Our Planet, Our Health
How do rising temperatures threaten our health—and who gets left behind? Yasna Palmeiro-Silva discusses climate adaptation, justice, and protecting vulnerable communities.
Our Planet, Our Health is a series of conversations on justice issues related to planetary health, designed for a general audience. In each episode, we speak with leading experts from around the world about the ethical, legal, and social challenges at the intersection of global health, the environment, and justice.
Why this series?
Our health shapes how we live, plan our futures, spend time with loved ones, have fun, build careers, and raise children. Every day, we learn more about how human health is deeply intertwined with the health of our planet and with the actions of others.
Our well-being depends on coworkers staying home when they’re sick, on people getting vaccinated, on companies developing new medicines, on lawyers and activists fighting environmental contamination and climate change, on scientists discovering treatments, and on ethicists helping set priorities.
We are a species with complex, intergenerational life plans—and yet we are profoundly vulnerable.
About the project
This series is an initiative of the Global Health Justice Postdoctoral Programme (GHJ), and directed by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst and Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf at Goethe University Frankfurt.This programme is funded by the Höppsche Stiftung
Host
Dr. Romina Rekers
Normative Orders Centre, Goethe University Frankfurt
The Global Health Justice Programme is supported by the Höppsche Stiftung in Villmar.
Credits
Video: Studiumdigitale Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Intro voice: Olwen O’Neill
Music: Alex Grohl, “Win the day”
#ClimateHealth #Adaptation #Justice
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