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Bio-Distress
Includes re-merging diseases, massive pollution, bioweapons and extreme climate variability.

It’s harder to be healthy It will be increasingly difficult—and expensive—for people to achieve good health. Developed economies are beset by chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. Poor urban residents in the United States with marginal access to fresh foods, green spaces, and pollution-free environments will suffer disproportionately. More children will need access to ongoing medical care but in ways that don’t impact their ability to participate fully in school.

Resources:
- A Heavy Toll from Disease Fuels Suspicion and Ang
- AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water
- As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes
- Asbestos and Aging Pipes Remain Buried Hazards
- Biodisaster
- Cell Phone Use in Hospitals Poses Danger
- China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing Factories
- China’s Turtles, Emblems of a Crisis
- Cleaning Up China
- Drought-Stricken South Facing Tough Choices
- Efforts to Harvest Ocean’s Energy Open New Debate
- Efforts to Harvest Ocean’s Energy Open New Debate
- EPA Ties with Chemical Industry Probed
- Futurist Magazine's forecasts for 2007 and beyond
- Futurist Magazine's forecasts for 2007 and beyond
- Ghana Reports First Case of Bird Flu in Poultry
- Gore, U.N. Body Win Nobel Peace Prize
- Kids Need Mental Health
- Merck Settles Vioxx Lawsuits for $4.85 Billion
- Oil Spill Spreads in San Francisco Bay
- Reservoirs Closed After Carcinogen Is Found
- Schools in Several States Report Staph Infections,
- Senate Panel Passes Bill to Limit Greenhouse Gases
- Study Paints Dire Picture of Warmer Northeast
- Ten things you need to know about pandemic influen
- The Inconvenient Truth
- U.N. Report Describes Risks of Inaction on Climate
- U.S. Court Backs States’ Measures to Cut Emissions
- US Gov't to Reduce Bird Flu Testing During '07
- Weak Ties, Modern Epidemics and World Society

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Dilemmas   Dilemmas
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