Perera Frederica P
Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York.
Environ Health Perspect. 2017 Feb;125(2):141-148. doi: 10.1289/EHP299. Epub 2016 Jun 21.
Approaches to estimating and addressing the risk to children from fossil fuel combustion have been fragmented, tending to focus either on the toxic air emissions or on climate change. Yet developing children, and especially poor children, now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both environmental pollution and climate change due to fossil fuel combustion.
This commentary summarizes the robust scientific evidence regarding the multiple current and projected health impacts of fossil fuel combustion on the young to make the case for a holistic, child-centered energy and climate policy that addresses the full array of physical and psychosocial stressors resulting from fossil fuel pollution.
The data summarized here show that by sharply reducing our dependence on fossil fuels we would achieve highly significant health and economic benefits for our children and their future. These benefits would occur immediately and also play out over the life course and potentially across generations.
Going beyond the powerful scientific and economic arguments for urgent action to reduce the burning of fossil fuels is the strong moral imperative to protect our most vulnerable populations. Citation: Perera FP. 2017. Multiple threats to child health from fossil fuel combustion: impacts of air pollution and climate change. Environ Health Perspect 125:141-148; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP299.
评估和应对化石燃料燃烧对儿童造成风险的方法一直零散，往往要么侧重于有毒空气排放，要么侧重于气候变化。然而，由于化石燃料燃烧，成长中的儿童，尤其是贫困儿童，现在承受着环境污染和气候变化带来的不成比例的疾病负担。
本评论总结了关于化石燃料燃烧对年轻人当前和预计的多种健康影响的有力科学证据，以支持制定一项以儿童为中心的整体能源与气候政策，该政策要应对化石燃料污染导致的一系列身体和心理社会压力源。
此处总结的数据表明，通过大幅减少对化石燃料的依赖，我们将为我们的孩子及其未来带来极其显著的健康和经济效益。这些益处将立即显现，并在生命历程中发挥作用，甚至可能惠及几代人。
除了采取紧急行动减少化石燃料燃烧的有力科学和经济论据之外，保护我们最脆弱人群还有着强烈的道德责任。引文：佩雷拉·FP。2017年。化石燃料燃烧对儿童健康的多重威胁：空气污染和气候变化的影响。《环境健康展望》125：141 - 148；http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP299 。
