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Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change

  • Written by Jonathan Levy, Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate changeExtreme heat can threaten human health, but it's only one way climate change puts lives at risk.Drew Angerer/Getty Images

If you’ve been following recent debates about health, you’ve been hearing a lot about vaccines, diet, measles, Medicaid cuts and health insurance costs – but much less about one of the greatest threats to...

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