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Climate change and health: discussion and impacts
In the span of two centuries, humans have done what no other species has been able to accomplish-to impact the basic functioning of the planet. Scientists call this era as the “Anthropocene;” it was at this time in history wherein humans became the commanding species on the planet resulting in massive disruptions in the planet’s ecological and geophysical operations. Prior to the era, the climate was stable in the Holocene period and before that the Pleistocene period was primarily marked by significant glacial movements (McMichael, 2011, pp. 187-188). With regards to global health, the impacts of ...
