气候变化与儿童健康:为每个孩子创造健康的未来。
Climate Change and Children's Health: Building a Healthy Future for Every Child.
机构信息
University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Section of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
出版信息
Pediatrics. 2024 Mar 1;153(3). doi: 10.1542/peds.2023-065504.
The warming of our planet matters to every child. Driven by fossil fuel-generated greenhouse gas emissions, climate conditions stable since the founding of modern pediatrics in the mid-nineteenth century have shifted, and old certainties are falling away. Children's physical and mental health are threatened by climate change through its effects on temperature, precipitation, and extreme weather; ecological disruption; and community disruption. These impacts expose and amplify existing inequities and create unprecedented intergenerational injustice. Fossil fuel extraction and combustion cause harm today and reach centuries into the future, jeopardizing the health, safety, and prosperity of today's children and future generations. Appreciating the unique vulnerability of their patients, pediatricians have become leading health advocates for climate actions necessary to protect all living and future children. Policies that reduce reliance on fossil fuels and promote cleaner air, facilitate walking and bicycling, encourage more sustainable diets, increase access to nature, and develop more connected communities lead to immediate gains in child health and equity, and build a foundation for generations of children to thrive.
全球变暖与每一个孩子息息相关。自 19 世纪中叶现代儿科学创立以来,一直保持稳定的气候条件,由于化石燃料产生的温室气体排放而发生了变化,旧的确定性正在消失。气候变化通过其对温度、降水和极端天气的影响、生态破坏以及社区破坏,威胁着儿童的身心健康。这些影响暴露和加剧了现有的不平等现象,并造成了前所未有的代际不公正。化石燃料的开采和燃烧给今天和未来几个世纪带来了危害,危及当今儿童和未来几代人的健康、安全和繁荣。儿科医生意识到他们的病人的独特脆弱性,已经成为保护所有现有和未来儿童所必需的气候行动的主要健康倡导者。减少对化石燃料的依赖、改善空气质量、促进步行和骑自行车、鼓励更可持续的饮食、增加接触自然的机会以及发展更加互联的社区的政策,可直接改善儿童健康和公平,并为子孙后代的茁壮成长奠定基础。