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The Health Impacts of Climate Change and Ecological Diagnosis and Treatment

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As humans evolved, we were actors on the global ecological stage no different from any other organism with whom we shared the planet. However, over the last two to three hundred years, we have increasingly monopolized the stage, becoming the playwright as well as the dominant actor. Today, we are fundamentally altering the stage itself, often in ways that disrupt the planet’s ecological systems with deleterious consequences for our own health and well-being.

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