"As Earth's climate changes, it will do far more than maroon polar bears amid melting ice," Dr. Epstein wrote in the introduction to his 2011 book "Changing Planet, Changing Health." He went on to link climate change with deadly heat waves and heavy rains, and explained how it is a driving force for the spread of malaria-carrying mosquitoes and shrinking supplies of clean water."
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