Who Feels the Heat?
Madeleine Scammell studies unequal exposure to heat and its health consequences, from Central America to Chelsea, Mass.
March 3, 2021 Twitter Facebook
“Climate change is a slow-motion disaster for some, and a not-so-slow disaster for what we call ‘frontline’ communities the most vulnerable people and places who have most often contributed the least in terms of emissions that are exacerbating the greenhouse effect,” says Madeleine Scammell, associate professor of environmental health.
Scammell is, increasingly, studying heat in these communities, from Nicaragua to Chelsea, Mass.
It began in 2008 with her research into an ongoing and still not explained epidemic of chronic kidney disease in Central America that has killed thousands of young- and middle-aged men, most of them agricultural sugarcane workers.