April 1, 2010 - ...compromise community infrastructure in some instances. This paper discusses climate change-related health risks facing older people in rural areas, with an emphasis on the impact of heat, drought and drying on rural and remote regions. Adaptive health sector responses are identified to promote mitigation of this substantial emerging need as individuals and their communities experience the projected impact of climate change. Citation: Horton G, Hanna L, Kelly B. “Drought, drying and climate change: emerging health issues for ageing Australians in rural areas. Australasian Journal on Ageing 2010; 29:2-7. Article includes reference to DEA‟s Greenclinic initiative with the Australian Conservation Foundation...
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Future under threat: climate change and children’s health
October 9, 2012 - ...from heat waves, floods, storms, fires and droughts. The increased incidence and severity of floods, for instance, will increase child illness and death from diarrhoea and other water born diseases. We’re likely to see more asthma, allergies, disease and other adverse health outcomes that disproportionately affect children. A recent report observed that climate change may make serious epidemics more likely in previously less-affected communities. This report also found that changing climate conditions have the potential to stimulate the emergence of new diseases and influence children’s vulnerability to disease. Australians will not be immune to these changes. It has been estimated...
Germany, solar technology, human health and Australian government failure.
May 29, 2012 - ...when factories and offices were closed. Government-mandated support for renewables has helped Germany became a world leader in renewable energy and the country gets about 20 percent of its overall annual electricity from those sources. Germany has nearly as much installed solar power generation capacity as the rest of the world combined and gets about four percent of its overall annual electricity needs from the sun alone. It aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020. Read on What lessons can be learned from Germany? Increasingly we are aware that the cause of...
Abolition of fossil fuel and diesel subsidies are health measures
May 24, 2012 - ...to solar technology in isolated communities. According to the government’s Bureau of Resource and Energy Economics, oil is used to generate around 5 million MWh of electricity per year. If solar PV could capture half of this market it would drive a further 1900MW of capacity. This is greater than all the solar PV that has been installed in the country to date. Read more And for an overview What you can do Sign a petition of 350.org Write to your member of parliament Display the DEA coal poster in your waiting room- write to Joy for one at admin@dea.org.au...
Assessment and acceptance of risk is essential in acting on climate change
May 19, 2012 - ...terrorism, fragile states (produced by various combinations of the above), and pervasive entrenched corruption dominate. Putting all elements of the risk categories together, water supply and food shortage crises, volatility in energy and agricultural prices, fiscal imbalances, income disparity, and greenhouse gas emissions control, dominate the high scores. Perhaps more significant than their relative scores is the fact that these risks are highly interconnected. Unsustainable population growth, currently with age peaks both in the young and in the old, produce enormous consumer demands for basic living requirements, societal pressures for maintenance, and issues of fiscal instability and urban management. Greenhouse...
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