Fossil Fuels Threaten Children's Health (VIDEO)

Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health

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Frederica Perera, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, identifies fossil fuel combustion and associated air pollution and carbon dioxide (CO2) as the root cause of much of the ill health of children today. Because of their inherent biological vulnerability, children now bear a disproportionate burden of disease from both pollution and climate change.

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