Teach Yourself Baby Sleep
Author: Andrea Grac
Help your baby sleep easier and get the rest you need, too
Colic, sleep apnea, and night terrors are just a few of the problems babies face during the sleep hours. Teach Yourself Baby Sleep provides you with practical tips and case studies to help you empower yourself and conquer these seemingly insurmountable issues.
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Climate Chaos: Your Health at Risk: What You Can Do to Protect Yourself and Your Family
Author: Cindy L Parker MD
Why should we care about climate chaos and global warming? Because, among other risky outcomes, they may seriously harm our health! Scientists around the world are in agreement that global warming, more aptly named climate change, is occurring and human activity is the primary cause. The debate now is in the scientific and policy worlds about just how harmful climate change will be and what are the best ways to stop it. One of those scientists is author Cindy Parker, who believes climate change is the most health-damaging problem humanity has ever faced. Parker has thus immersed herself during the past ten years in educating the public and health professionals about how climate change will affect our well-being. Here, she and husband, Steve Shapiro, a psychologist and former journalist, describe what we can expect if climate change continues unabated. The authors explain our possible physical and mental responses to such climate change factors as heat stress, poor air quality, insufficient water resources, and the rise of infectious diseases fueled by even minor increases in temperature. They also show how other changes that may result from climate change-including sea level rise, extreme weather events, and altered food supplies can harm human health. Parker and Shapiro have found, however, that just talking about the problem is not enough. Actions that can prevent or reduce climate change's harm are presented in each chapter.
To illustrate how much global warming will affect our lives, Parker and Shapiro begin their book with a chapter showing the worst-case scenario if climate change continues without intervention, and end the book with the best case scenario if we act now. Their eye-opening work will appeal to everyone who wants to remain healthy as we challenge this world-altering problem of our own making . While written for a lay audience in a manner that limits technical terminology, the book will also appeal to students and professionals of public health, medicine, environmental psychology, and science who will find the focus on health and the extensive referencing useful.
Table of Contents:
Series Foreword xiA Climate Change Tale 1
Climate Chaos: What May Come 10
What This Book Is About 11
What's Happening to Our Climate 12
Why the Climate Is Changing 13
The Greenhouse Effect 15
Greenhouse Gases and Temperature 15
Sea Level Rise 18
Dangerous Climate Change 19
The Most Worrisome Greenhouse Gases 20
The Speed of Climate Change 20
Greenhouse Gas Emissions across Nations 22
Peak Petroleum 24
The Book's Outline 26
Temperature: Home Is Getting Hotter 30
It Could Get Hot 31
Heat and Our Health 32
The Most Vulnerable to Heat Stress 34
Poverty: Another Risk Factor for Heat Stress 35
Geography Matters 36
Gender Considerations 37
Race and Ethnicity 39
Fewer Deaths from Cold Weather? 39
Global Warming and Behavior 40
Solutions 41
Air: Breathing Harder 45
The Climate-Air Pollution Connection 46
Ozone andHealth 47
Who Is Most Vulnerable to Ozone Effects? 48
Children 48
Other Vulnerable Populations 49
Particulate Matter 50
Forest Fires and Breathing 50
Dust 51
Other Air Toxins 52
Pollen and Climate Change 53
Who Decides How Clean Our Air Will Be? 53
Air Quality and Your Mental Health 55
Solutions 56
Water: Water, Water Everywhere or Neverthere 62
Risks to Our Water 63
How We Use Water 64
Where Our Water Comes From 65
How Much Water We Need 66
Droughts Affect Health 67
Droughts and Infectious Disease 67
Droughts and Fires 68
Floods Affect Health 69
Climate Change and Water Availability 69
Melting Snowpack 70
Melting Glaciers 71
Desalination 72
Bottled Water 73
Water Conservation-More Than Just Personal Virtue 74
Water Scarcity, Conservation, and Mental Health 74
Solutions 76
Cataclysmic Events: Pounding People and the Planet 78
A Cavalcade of Harm 79
Floods and Inundations 80
Floods, Contamination, and Disease 81
Floods, Mold, and More 83
Storm Surge 84
Saltwater Contamination of Wells 84
Erosion 85
Other Effects of Cataclysmic Events on Health 86
Risk to Infrastructure and Health 87
Displaced People 88
Conflict 89
Cataclysmic Events and Mental Health 90
The Science of a Rise in Sea Level 91
Thermal Expansion 91
Melting Inland Glaciers 91
Greenland's Melting Ice 92
Melting Arctic Sea Ice 92
Melting Antarctica 94
Melting Ice = Sea-Level Rise 94
The Science of Hurricanes and Other Storms 94
Solutions 96
Infectious Disease: Bacteria, Viruses, and Parasites, Oh My 99
The Relationship between Climate and Infectious Disease 100
Malaria and Climate Change 100
Other Diseases Mosquitoes Carry 102
Diseases from Other Insects 103
Diseases Carried on Ocean and Wind Currents 105
Foodborne Diseases 106
What's Next? 107
Infectious Disease and Mental Health 107
Solutions 108
Food: Nature's Bounty Bashed 111
Plants, Climate Change, and Our Food Supply 112
How Crops Grow 113
Heat's Harm to Crops 114
Climate Change and Pesticide Use on Crops 115
Soil, Erosion, and Climate Change 116
Plants and Ozone 117
After Peak Oil and Its Effect on Food 117
Aquatic and Marine Food Supply 119
Climate Change and Food Toxins 120
How Much of An Effect? 121
Meat: What We Eat Drives Climate Change 122
Other Contributors to Climate Change 123
Biofuels 124
Climate, Food, and Mental Health 125
Solutions 126
Ecosystem Health: Cycles of Life ... Or Death 129
Ecosystems and Our Health 131
Farms and Prairies 131
Mountains 132
Forests and Biodiversity 133
Coastal Wetland Ecosystems and Storm Buffers 134
Marine Ecosystems 135
Marine Dead Zones 136
Biodiversity Loss and Infectious Disease 137
Biodiversity Loss = Extinction 138
Energy and Ecosystem Health 138
Coal's Damage to Ecosystems 139
Oil's Damage to Ecosystems 140
Reducing the Impact of Fossil Fuels on the Climate and Ecosystems 140
Energy Efficiency 140
Geoengineering 141
Alternatives to Fossil Fuels 142
Renewable Energy 142
Nuclear Energy 144
A Final Word on Ecosystems 145
Solutions 145
Human Behavior: Choice to Change 147
Where Human Behavior and Climate Change Meet 148
How We Come to Behave 149
How We Change Our Behavior 150
Individuals and Climate Change 151
Brains and Behavior 151
Environmental Concern and Emotions 154
Thinking: Beyond Concern to Attitudes, Beliefs, Values.... 157
Personal Responsibility and Self-Efficacy 159
Risk Perception and Fear 161
Sociodemographic Variables 164
Hope for Individual Behavior 166
Community Factors and Climate Change 166
Economics 167
Government and Institutional Policies 168
Media and Communications 172
Social Identity: Norms, Connections, and Movements 174
Place 175
Other External Factors 176
Hope for the Meeting of Individual and Community Factors 177
Solutions 178
Epilogue 182
References 186
Index 214
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