Shared Stories
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Peggy P. We need policymakers as partners to achieve healthy air. It’s hard telling my patients they shouldn’t exercise outside on bad air quality days.
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Penny B. As a health officer with the San Luis Obispo Public Health Department, I view climate change as an urgent health issue
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Praveen B. Cleaner fuels will help my patients breathe easier. We have no control over the air we breathe, but we do have a say in what pollutes it.
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Randolph J. L. We must not underestimate the need for clean air. As a physician, I see how the climate and air quality affects my patients with lung disease, every day.
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Robert B. Air pollution endangers our patients’ health. Air pollution endangers our patients' health and contributes to approximately 107,000 premature deaths every year in the United States alone.
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Robert J. B. Access to clean air is critical. As a pulmonologist I am motivated by helping to alleviate my patients’ suffering from asthma, COPD, lung cancer, pneumonia, and other lung diseases that can be caused by and exacerbated by dirty air.
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Robert M. G. We must act urgently to halt global warming. We need to act urgently to halt the worsening course of global warming.
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Sharon C. All communities deserve a healthy climate. Air pollution has detrimental effects on fetal development, sends people to the hospital for respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses, and worsens asthma and COPD.
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Sonal R. P. I owe it to my children to fight for climate health. With asthma, you wheeze, your chest tightens, you cough and are short of breath.
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Sumita B. K. Climate change affects everyone. There are many reasons why I work to fight and increase awareness around climate change. The most important reason is simple: Humanity.
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Sunil K. S. Clean air is the right of every individual. As a specialist in treating childhood asthma, I see first-hand the effects that pollution has on the health of our most vulnerable population - children.
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Therese S. Clean air is essential to all of us. I fight for clean air and climate action because I lost my mom to lung cancer in 1986.
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Tze-Ming (Benson) C. Clean air equals healthy air. Climate health is of critical importance to our own personal well-being and that of our children and future generations.
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Ying . Climate change harms health.
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Kristie C. My Dad, Raymond Paul, was diagnosed with IPF in 2015.
