Canada’s first female astronaut says the health-care sector needs to play an active role in mitigating the impact of climate change on human health.
Canadian astronaut Roberta Bondar poses a picture in Toronto, Tuesday November 29, 2016. For eight days in January 1992, Roberta Bondar circled the Earth aboard the Shuttle Discovery, becoming Canada's first woman in space and exactly 25 years later she continues to explore the planet. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Blinch
“Looking out the window and seeing the edge of the planet against the black universe and not seeing … something else coming in to help us really makes one appreciate the fact that the life on our surface is extremely precious and unique,” Bondar told CTV’s Your Morning on Friday for Earth Day. Climate change is shifting wind, air, and water patterns which means diseases are shifting to areas they haven’t been before, she said. The medical community understands the connection between human health and air quality issues because of fires, for example, or the connection between infections, changes in temperature and movement of mosquitoes, she told Your Morning.
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