Open AccessChildren Are Likely to Suffer Most from Our Fossil Fuel Addiction
Author(s) -
Frederica P. Perera
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.11173
Subject(s) - fossil fuel , environmental health , climate change , pollutant , medicine , environmental science , environmental protection , ecology , biology
The periods of fetal and child development arguably represent the stages of greatest vulnerability to the dual impacts of fossil fuel combustion: the multiple toxic effects of emitted pollutants (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, particles, sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, metals) and the broad health impacts of global climate change attributable in large part to carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning.
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