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The idea is that everyone can make a small change to have a great impact on the increasing problem of climate change and global warming.  I was actually shocked when I started doing research and came up with these statistics found on the website of the World Health Organization:

 

     Due to temperature change...

          ... malnutrition kills 3.7 million people globally.

          ...diarrhea kills 1.9 million annually.

          ...malaria kills 0.9 million.

 

Wow!  Really!?  The same research indicates that climate changes have this tremendous impact on people's health due to the way it affects food, air, water and stable shelter (all of humanity's basic needs).  Coming from my very spoiled American background, these things were never much of a concern for me.  And yet, now with the plight of Haiti's population being in the daily news, it is ever more in my awareness that the most vulnerable are those who live in underdeveloped nations, or those with compromised immune systems (the young, the old, the disabled, etc.).

 

I would like for the YHSC to raise awareness among their schools, their neighborhoods, their towns this year.  Maybe next year, we can make it much bigger.   But for 2010, we are going to start where we are.  I think that's our small change.  Make yours by visiting www.EarthHour.org

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