Climate change health care costs versus cheap carbon-emitting fossil fuels
Climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is especially unhealthy for young children in Montana and will only get worse by mid-century.
That’s according to a panel of doctors and scientists who spoke at seminar focused on climate change and human health in Missoula this month.
Paul Smith, the director of pediatric pulmonology at Community Medical Center, said climate change is undoubtedly causing wildfires in western Montana to burn more acres, last longer and produce more smoke. That means children’s lungs, which are more vulnerable than those of adults, suffer the most.
“So when we talk about the balance of decisions we’re making for one consumption or the other, we really have to balance it over the externalized costs of those health care costs that are taking place to children,” he explained. “And those…
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