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Global Responsibilities: Ethics, Public Health, And Global Environmental Change, Dale Jamieson
Global Responsibilities: Ethics, Public Health, And Global Environmental Change, Dale Jamieson
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
In this article, Professor Dale Jamieson examines the relationship between
climate change and public health from an ethical perspective. He begins by
exploring the link between global environmental change and public health and
concludes that global warming poses a serious potential threat to human
health. Professor Jamieson then questions why the potential health effects of
climate change have received so much attention when the other ramifications
of climate change have been left unaddressed He argues that the combination
of several factors has brought the issue of potential health effects to the
forefront of the climate change debate. One such factor …