I recently started medical school after working as a designer, dealing with chiefly with climate change topics (some practical and applied, some purely artistic and museum based). So I first want to thank you for doing this research, this is genuinely inspiring. You're showing me just how possible it is to do research in this area!
What I see a lot in my public health classes is an important and massive focus on nutrition. Nutrition particularly, is very much connected to climate change issues, yet I've never heard a single word about climate and environmental problems in my curriculum. For example, we continously get often get presented ideal and balanced nutritional profiles that don't take into account the environmental consequences of that food.
Where do you think does this inability by the medical world at large to take climate change into account lie, and how could we approach integrating it more?
What other diseases and threats to human health can we expect with more warming?
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I recently started medical school after working as a designer, dealing with chiefly with climate change topics (some practical and applied, some purely artistic and museum based). So I first want to thank you for doing this research, this is genuinely inspiring. You're showing me just how possible it is to do research in this area!
What I see a lot in my public health classes is an important and massive focus on nutrition. Nutrition particularly, is very much connected to climate change issues, yet I've never heard a single word about climate and environmental problems in my curriculum. For example, we continously get often get presented ideal and balanced nutritional profiles that don't take into account the environmental consequences of that food.
Where do you think does this inability by the medical world at large to take climate change into account lie, and how could we approach integrating it more?
What other diseases and threats to human health can we expect with more warming?
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