From the publisher: Award-winning journalist Linda Marsa blends compelling narrative with cutting-edge science to explore the changes in Earth’s increasingly fragile support system and provide a blueprint—a 'medical Manhattan Project'—detailing what we need to do to protect ourselves from this imminent medical meltdown. In the tradition of Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring,' Marsa sounds the alarm on a subject that has largely been ignored by governments and policy makers, and persuasively argues why preparedness for the health effects of climate change is the most critical issue affecting our survival in the coming century
