Philip Alcabes

Professor of Urban Public Health, City University of New York

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Professor of Urban Public Health at City University of New York's Hunter College and the author of Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu

Philip Alcabes on KCRW

There’s been early denial and official inaction when it comes to both the coronavirus outbreak and climate change.  Can either crisis teach us about the other?

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There’s been early denial and official inaction when it comes to both the coronavirus outbreak and climate change.  Can either crisis teach us about the other?

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The World Health Organization says all of humanity is now under threat from a swine flu pandemic, but nobody knows how severe it might turn out to be.

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