Sentences with phrase «consequences for human health»

West Coast LEAF has issued a press release jointly with the BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre, and Community Legal Assistance Society calling on the BC government to raise social assistance rates and address the resulting epidemic of food insecurity and the dire consequences for human health and safety.

Fortunately, his past report has some general principles — suggesting, for example, that government ensure that it have legal authority for decisions with particularly important consequences for human health and the environment.

We accept the IPCC consensus that climate change raises the risk of severe consequences for human health and security and the environment.

Author Nina Teicholz reveals how the past sixty years of low - fat nutrition advice has amounted to a vast uncontrolled experiment with disastrous consequences for human health.

The effects included in the model calculations are adverse consequences for human health, decreased timber and agriculture yields, reduced visibility, accelerated depreciation of materials, and reductions in recreation services.

And that brings deadly consequences for human health, in the United States and around the world.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now.

In addition, adaptation is necessary to address unavoidable consequences for human health and safety, food security, water availability, and national security, among others.

Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, heavy downpours, floods, and other extreme weather events are projected to become more frequent and intense, with serious consequences for human health and well - being.

Months after Harvey's floodwaters swamped Houston, the extent of the environmental assault is beginning to surface, while questions about the long - term consequences for human health remain unanswered.

It warned, «Climate change will have devastating consequences for human health from»:

Some of the changes include deleting a summary that stated: «Climate change has global consequences for human health and the environment.»

On the other hand, despite the overwhelming evidence that global warming will transform the Earth's climate for centuries, with fearful consequences for human health and wellbeing (not to mention the survival of many species and ecosystems), the world can not agree to significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions because of concerns about the effects on economic growth.

Tropospheric ozone (O3, or smog) is a pollutant with widespread negative consequences for human health and crop production; it is also a greenhouse gas.

Extreme weather events are known to have serious consequences for human health and are predicted to increase in frequency as a result of climate change.

Climate change will have devastating consequences for human health... Malaria, tick - borne encephalitis, and dengue fever will become increasingly widespread.

In fact, it is becoming more and more obvious the recommended dietary advice of a high carbohydrate, low fat diet has had unintended consequences for human health and athletes do not escape these impacts.

At a global scale, the international scientific community has indicated that average annual temperature will at least be 2.5 °F (1.4 °C) and likely 3.6 °F (2.0 °C) higher in the next century than it was between 1850 - 1950, with ensuing consequences for both human health and livelihoods (IPCC 2013).

The shellfish - harvesting industry keeps a careful eye on domoic acid levels, since it can have serious consequences for human health.

«The Lancet report underscores the terrible consequences for human health if we don't start reducing the dangerous carbon pollution fueling climate change — and dramatic benefits for people the world over from taking action now,» echoed Kim Knowlton, senior scientist and deputy director of the Science Center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a release.

«Burmese python's hungry escapades may have consequences for human health.»

Interactions between these two genomes, which affect everything from health and physiology to fitness, have important consequences for human health and medical interventions such as mitochondrial replacement therapy in embryos.

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Decisions made during that time can have lifelong consequences, and well informed «First Responders» are a vital resource for information and support for families in the window of time that most strongly affects human bonding and family health.

«Overlooking human milk production / consumption in data analysis and policymaking has negative consequences for children's health and nutritional status.»

Although hormonal growth promoters are illegal in the UK, it is widely feared that the use of antibiotics may be contributing towards the development of drug - resistant bacteria, with potentially serious consequences for animal and human health.

However, the same properties that allow nanotechnology to be valuable give it the potential to cause unforeseen consequences for ecological and human health.

With world population expected to increase as much as 50 percent over the next half century, analysts are indeed worried that increasing demand for water, coupled with industrialization and urbanization, will have serious consequences both for human health and the environment.

The current SNP map now makes it possible for genome - wide association studies to identify genes responsible for diseases and traits, with important consequences for human and companion animal health.

As a result, many resort to even stronger chemical pesticides, which may have greater consequences for human and environmental health.

Senator Tom Harkin (D - IA), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor and Health and Human Services, released a new report (PDF) in conjunction with the hearing that underscores how sequestration could unravel federal efforts to protect the middle class and have more destructive consequences for domestic programs like education than for defense.

Emerging and re-emerging animal diseases can have serious consequences for animal and human health.

Although motion sickness does not have any long - lasting health consequences, it is certainly a major drag for the poor dog and the poor human who must clean up the mess.

Acquiring a pet on impulse without due thought and consideration of the considerable commitment involved in its care can have negative consequences to human health (e.g. raising stress levels, relationship breakdown, family conflict) and devastating consequences to animal welfare, such as relinquishment to animal shelters for re-homing, abuse and neglect.

As we learn from our 2010 experience what a sustained heat wave of +5 °C to +10 °C implies for human health, water resources, and agricultural productivity, a more meaningful appreciation for the potential consequences of the projected climate changes will emerge.

Impacts of such climate - related extremes include alteration of ecosystems, disruption of food production and water supply, damage to infrastructure and settlements, morbidity and mortality, and consequences for mental health and human well - being.

Firewood is an important energy source in Chile, especially in the south, but its use is causing severe air pollution and, as a consequence, problems for human health.

These include the consequences for vulnerable systems, such as agricultural production in tropical regions, impacts on human health and natural systems such as coral reefs, and on ice sheets and sea level rise.

Coming in at $ 5,000 a month is Idso's principal partner in the regular IPCC attack, Fred Singer, who for the last 20 years has denied pretty much any health threat with a corporate sponsor: the health impacts of second - hand smoke; coal's role in creating acid rain; the danger of asbestos; or DDT; the role of CFCs in creating the ozone hole; and, of course, the human cause and potential consequences of climate change.

If the consequences for health and human safety weren't so deadly serious, watching wind powered Victoria and SA plummet into North Korean darkness every time the wind stops blowing would be hilarious.

A determined push could increase that number, but with many undesirable consequences for the environment, wildlife, and human health — as documented on the National Wind Watch web site: www.wind-watch.org.

Impacts of such climate - related extremes include alteration of ecosystems, disruption of food production and water supply, damage to infrastructure and settlements, human morbidity and mortality and consequences for mental health and human well - being.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,human health consequences [135,136].

During the late 20th century, a scientific consensus evolved that increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere cause a substantial rise in global temperatures and changes to other parts of the climate system, [149] with consequences for the environment and for human health.

(Yes, we consume too many sweeteners of all kinds, but as I wrote in this recent post, there is evidence that this industrially extracted combination of fructose and glucose has more health consequences than the ones that humans have been consuming for for longer.)

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Thus, supply of drinking water is a consideration relating to human health is an imperative reason of overriding public interest, but, on the other hand, irrigation is only so to the extent that it may have beneficial consequences of primary importance for the environment.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Montreal, QC — This Wednesday, May 4, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) will launch a new report in Canada on the health consequences of crowd control weapons, published in collaboration with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) of which CCLA is a membFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Montreal, QC — This Wednesday, May 4, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) will launch a new report in Canada on the health consequences of crowd control weapons, published in collaboration with Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) of which CCLA is a membfor Human Rights (PHR) and the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO) of which CCLA is a member.