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Coalition Letter to President Biden: Addressing the Climate Crisis' Domestic Impacts on Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes

Dear President Biden, We are a group of human rights, reproductive rights, reproductive justice, environmental justice, maternal and child health, health care professional organizations, medical societies, and other advocates writing with a spirit of energized support for your January Executive Order (EO) on Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad[1] and for your commitment to racial justice and environmental justice in addressing the climate crisis in the United States. April 20, 2021 Pregnant People, Infants, Children Particularly Vulnerable We are also writing to emphasize that addressing the climate crisis appropriately includes considering how heat, wildfires, floods, and other impacts stand to worsen the maternal health crisis that is dominated by unjust racial disparities, widening further the shocking gap in this country between who has a healthy pregnancy and baby and who does not.

Farmers and ranchers can help in the climate crisis

© Getty Images Farmers and ranchers are up against unparalleled obstacles that threaten their livelihoods and the global food supply.  Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing humanity today. The last seven years have been the Earth’s hottest years on record. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States experienced 22 extreme weather events and disasters in 2020, resulting in more than $95 billion in damages. This year we have already witnessed an unprecedented winter storm in Texas that has impacted scores of farms and ranches in that state, killing livestock and crops, including the state’s citrus industry. Farmers and ranchers are on the frontlines of climate change, battling natural disasters year in and year out that batter their crops and livestock, land and their ability to survive economically.

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