Landrigan, P;
Fuller, R;
Haines, A;
Watts, N;
McCarthy, G;
(2018)
Pollution prevention and climate change mitigation: measuring the health benefits of comprehensive interventions.
[Editorial comment].
The Lancet Planetary Health
, 2
(12)
e515-e516.
10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30226-2.
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Abstract
Pollution and climate change are two hallmarks of the Anthropocene Age; they are grave consequences of human activity on planetary health. These twin threats arise from many of the same sources: the burning of fossil fuels for electricity generation and of biomass fuels for cooking and heating, modern globalised systems of production and transportation, mechanised agriculture, urbanisation, and the growing global manufacture and use of toxic chemicals. Both have their origins in the linear, take-make-use-dispose economic model, that Pope Francis has termed the “throwaway culture”, in which natural resources and human capital are viewed as inexhaustible and expendable, and consequences in the long term are seldom considered.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Pollution prevention and climate change mitigation: measuring the health benefits of comprehensive interventions |
| Location: | Netherlands |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30226-2 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(18)30226-2 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an Open Access article under the CC BY 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10074264 |
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