http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/melia-condon/ Melia Condon is a student at the University of Western Sydney and a member of the Global Voices Australian Youth Delegation to the UN climate negotiations in Durban. en Copyright 2013 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-world-has-a-fever-and-its-going-to-make-us-sick/ Climate talks in Durban, South Africa, have ended. Developing and developed countries both agreed that a deal to slash emissions “with legal force” would begin in 2020. This has been hailed by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet as a ““significant milestone”. But today on The Punch a youth delegate at the conference, Melia Condon, explains that one thing keeps getting left out of discussions about climate change: it will have a serious impact on our health. Increases in temperature, extreme weather events and sea level rises are not the impacts of climate change we should be most concerned about in the short term. It is often overlooked that even just a small change to our environment can have a profound impact on human health. Meanwhile, the size of endemic areas and severity of vector, food and water-borne infectious diseases are on the rise. As are tropical storms, floods and droughts that many Australians are all too familiar with and the flow on effects to malnutrition and mental health in some cases. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Melia Condon) Article http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-world-has-a-fever-and-its-going-to-make-us-sick/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/the-world-has-a-fever-and-its-going-to-make-us-sick/#item7351 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:45:44 +0000 Melia Condon | Author bios | The Punch