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Environmental Health: A Shared Destiny with Humanity
Environmental Health: A Shared Destiny with Humanity
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But more pernicious threats, such as climate change caused by greenhouse gas emissions and the pressures imposed on the environment by a growing population, have continued to mount. Shutterstock® Shutterstock® 58 20220909 NAM 50th Book Pages 56-73-RTP.indd 58 9/13/22 7:34 PM
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The Clean 1980 and dwindling resources, the federal government Water Act established regulations for the discharge created the Environmental Protection Agency of pollutants into water, set wastewater standards Protecting Communities from Toxic Waste (EPA) to enforce laws that protect the environment for industry, and protected quality standards for In the late 1970s, the media began reporting on and public health.
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The direct health effects, food instability, Report on Smoking and unhealthy living environments, financial crises, Health, awareness of the and other impacts of the disaster aggravated unparalleled toll of death and existing economic, environmental, and health disease among smokers grew related disparities in Louisiana and wreaked the substantially during the 1970s and 1980s. In 1992, most harm among already vulnerable populations, 1987 a report from the Environmental Protection Agency including children, minority groups, and people in declared that inhalation of secondhand tobacco low socioeconomic classes.
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contaminating drinking water in the city of Flint, among the most important and urgent global health Michigan, exposing residents to high levels of heavy threats and opportunities of the 21st century, the French President metal neurotoxins and further emphasizing the François Hollande and National Academy of Medicine launched a Grand large number of environmental hazards that affect UN Secretary-General Challenge on Climate Change, Human Health, and disadvantaged communities. City officials were Ban Ki-moon at a press conference after the Equity in 2021, a multiyear global initiative to slow to respond, initially dismissing the concerns signing of the Paris improve and protect human health, well-being, and of residents -- the majority of whom are Black, with Climate Agreement, equity by working to transform systems that both April 2016 many living in poverty.
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