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The Air They Breathe
- The Air They Breathe by Debra Hendrickson highlights how climate change is harming her young patients today
- Burning fossil fuels and forest fires caused by climate change can cause bad air that worsens the breathing problems of children, especially those with asthma
- Extreme heat can cause heatstroke in children such as infant left in hot cars and high school football players who practice in the extreme heat
- Trauma and post traumatic stress disorder can occur in children who experience disasters caused by climate change
- Infectious diseases like malaria caused by an increase in mosquitoes are becoming more common with global warming
- Natural disasters such as 100-year floods and Category 4 hurricanes are growing more severe and frequent with each passing year
- The Air They Breathe clearly portrays that healthcare and climate change are intertwined and not separate issues
- This is not merely a problem that we will face in the coming decades, it's happening now, and this book is a call to action
- It motivates the readers to make more efforts to address global warming as ‘The only heroes our children have are us’
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