Multiple+Threats+to+Child+Health+from+Fossil+Fuel+Combustion,+Impacts+of+Air+Pollution+and+Climate+Change

Perera, Frederica P. "Multiple Threats to Child Health from Fossil Fuel Combustion: Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Change." Environmental Health Perspectives, vol. 125, no. 2, Feb. 2017, pp. 141-148. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1289/EHP299

Today, raising a child bears an excessive burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate change. This article provides a number of scientific evidences concerning the health impacts from global climate change on the young generation. The evidences show that reducing the fossil fuel combustions would highly improve the possible health problems for the children. The article insists that there should be some urgent actions trying to slow down the climate change, in addition to these scientific and economic arguments, to protect the most vulnerable generation in this world.

The research on the effect of climate change on human health will focus on not only the elderly adults but also the youngest generation. It is extremely important to study how to take care of the possible health consequences that can be brought to young generation, since they are the future of this society. The research will explain the health consequences and some possible actions to slow down the climate change and protect the young generation