他们呼吸的空气：气候变化前线的儿科医生 The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change

基本信息

Format:Hardback 256 pages, 1 b-w image t-o;

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Imprint:Simon & Schuster

ISBN:9781501197130

Published:10 Aug 2024

Weight:350g

Dimensions:148 x 222 x 26 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

一位来自美国变暖速度相当快的城市的儿科医生及时、有启发性地探讨了气候变化对儿童的影响——这是当今人类面临的很大道德危机。野火、飓风和热浪成为头条新闻。但黛布拉·亨德里克森诊所发生的事情讲述了这个奇怪而令人不安的时代的另一个故事。

亨德里克森是内华达州里诺市的一名儿科医生，里诺是美国变暖速度相当快的城市，夏季野火期间，火山灰像雪一样降落。在《他们呼吸的空气》一书中，亨德里克森医生讲述了她见过的因烟雾、雾霾和花粉恶化而受到伤害的病人；亚利桑那州的两个男孩在徒步旅行时遭遇创纪录的高温；逃离飓风哈维和塔布斯大火的儿童；还有一个小女孩，她的生活因 2016 年寨卡病毒爆发而永远改变了。

气候危机是一场健康危机，而且是儿童的健康危机。儿童的身体与周围环境交织在一起，并受其影响。随着地球变暖和环境变化，儿童的健康面临风险。

孩子尤其容易受到伤害，因为他们的大脑、肺和其他器官每天都在形成和成长，而且他们的生理机能与成年人大不相同。童年一直是人生中充满风险的时期；纵观历史，婴儿和儿童都曾面临危险，从脊髓灰质炎到饥荒，从飓风到战争。然而，他们从来没有以这种方式面对未来本身的潜在损失。

《他们呼吸的空气》不仅仅是关于全球变暖对健康的影响，还有更多：一个令人心潮澎湃的提醒，提醒我们对孩子们负有道德责任，以及他们与这个独特而不可替代的世界的深刻联系。

A timely, revelatory first look into the impact climate change has on young people—the greatest moral crisis humanity faces today—by a pediatrician in the fastest warming city in America. Wildfires, hurricanes, and heat waves make headlines. But what is happening in Debra Hendrickson’s clinic tells another story of this strange and unsettling time.

Hendrickson is a pediatrician in Reno, Nevada—the fastest warming city in the United States, where ash falls like snow during summer wildfires. In The Air They Breathe, Dr. Hendrickson recounts patients she’s seen who were harmed by worsening smoke, smog, and pollen; two boys in Arizona, stricken by record-setting heat while hiking; young people who fled for their lives from Hurricane Harvey and the Tubbs Fire; and a little girl whose life was forever altered by the Zika virus outbreak in 2016.

The climate crisis is a health crisis, and it is a health crisis, first and foremost, for young people. Their bodies are interwoven with and shaped by their surroundings. As the planet warms and their environment changes, their health is at risk.

The youngest are especially vulnerable because their brain, lungs, and other organs are forming and growing every day, and because their physiology is so different from that of adults. Young life has always been a risky period of life; throughout history, babies have met peril, from polio to famine, from cyclones to war. Yet they have never quite had to face, in quite this way, the potential loss of the future itself.

The Air They Breathe is not just about the health impacts of global warming, but something more: a soul-stirring reminder of our moral responsibility to our young people, and their profound connections to this unique and irreplaceable world.

作者简介

Debra Hendrickson 医学博士是内华达州里诺市的一名获得委员会认证的儿科医生。她是内华达大学医学院的临床副教授，讲授早期童年经历（如贫困和创伤）对长期健康的影响。她拥有布朗大学环境研究荣誉学位，在进入医学院之前，曾在新英格兰和西雅图担任环境分析师和规划师十年。Hendrickson 博士因其在环境研究和医学领域的学术成就和研究而获得过许多奖项。她是美国儿科学会会员、环境健康和气候变化委员会成员，也是内华达州气候行动临床医生协会的创始成员。

Debra Hendrickson, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician in Reno, Nevada. She is an associate clinical professor at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, where she lectures on the impact of early young life experiences (such as poverty and trauma) on long-term health. She has an honors degree in environmental studies from Brown University and was an environmental analyst and planner in New England and Seattle for ten years before attending medical school. Dr. Hendrickson has received many awards for academic achievement and research in both environmental studies and medicine. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, a member of its Council on Environmental Health and Climate Change, and a founding member of Nevada Clinicians for Climate Action.