Climate Change Is Already a Public Health Crisis—Just Look at Puerto Rico October 3, 2018
Olivia Alperstein | In These Times
As Puerto Rico marked the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, with its communities still hobbled by catastrophic damage and lack of access to basic services like electricity and healthcare, Hurricane Florence hovered over the Carolinas, wreaking extra havoc due to slower storm movement.
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