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== Correction==
===Causes===
* [[En-en_adult_card_28_vectors_of_disease|Vectors of Disease]]
* [[En-en_adult_card_31_freshwater_resources|Freshwater Resources]]
* [[En-en_adult_card_40_armed_conflicts|Armed Conflicts]]
=== Consequences ===
*[[En-en adult card 5 fossil fuels|Fossil fuels]]


== Explanation ==
== Explanation ==
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== Other possible links ==
== Other possible links ==


=== Causes ===
=== Other causes ===
[[En-en adult card 36 heat waves|Heat waves]] Heat waves can be devastating, especially for older people.
[[En-en adult card 36 heat waves|Heat waves]] Heat waves can be devastating, especially for older people.



Revision as of 10:55, 5 April 2021

Card #38: Human Health

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Starvation, displacement of disease vectors, heat waves and armed conflicts can affect human health.

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Causes

Consequences

Explanation

It is one of the cards that can be placed last, as one of the ultimate consequences of climate change.

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Other causes

Heat waves Heat waves can be devastating, especially for older people.

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The Sámi are an indigenous people from an area covering northern Sweden, Norway and Finland as well as the Kola Peninsula in Russia known as Lapland. The livelihoods of the Sámi are endangered by global warming[1].

The same applies to the livelihood conditions of the indigenous peoples of the Arctic Circle in Canada and Russia[2].

Increase in water-borne diseases (cholera, malaria, dengue fever, diarrhoea, hepatitis (hepatitis A and E), typhoid, some meningitis in Israel, etc.).

Increasing vulnerability to the survival of Aymara farmers in Bolivia due to the lack of freshwater resources caused by global warming[3].

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