[From Pacific Standard] Global climate change is a major and unprecedented public health threat. Unlike infectious pandemics such as last year’s Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 10,600 people in West Africa, climate change ignores HAZMAT suits and geographic borders. There will never be a vaccine to inoculate you from the negative effects of a dying planet. And when the planet’s well-being deteriorates, our health soon follows. Human-caused destruction of our climate is making us sick, and a sicker public means more strain on hospitals and health care services...(Continue reading)