[MCN] Continued combustion of fossil fuels -> direct and indirect bodily risk including risk to the brain

[Lance Olsen]

Continued fossil fuel combustion -> increased emissions -> hotter world -> direct bodily risk including risk to the brain 

Twenty-Seven Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You: Deadly Heat in the Era of Climate Change. Camilo Mora et al. Circulation : Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes 
<<https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233>>
Excerpts 
“ ….  our choices for deadly heat are now between more of it or a lot more of it.”
"Cell damage from thermal and chemical injury (through heat cytotoxicity and ischemia, respectively) can affect the functioning of several organs. 
"Cell damage from heat cytotoxicity and ischemia can lead to other serious conditions, such as acute tubular necrosis in the kidneys, permanent loss of brain function, liver endotoxins in the blood, inflammation of the pancreas, and not enough oxygen getting to the lungs and into the blood because of injury of the pulmonary endothelium.”


Keeping your head cool - Harvard Neuro Bloghttps://www.harvardneuroblog.com › blog › 2016/07/26 <https://www.harvardneuroblog.com/blog/2016/07/26/keeping-your-head-cool>
Jul 26, 2016 — Like most animals, our body temperature is 37 degrees Celsius (98.6 ... Of all organs, the brain is probably the most vulnerable to heat.


Brain temperature and its fundamental properties: a review <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2014.00307/full>
https://www.frontiersin.org › fnins.2014.00307 › full <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2014.00307/full>
by H Wang · 2014 · Cited by 229 — Brain cells are exceptionally sensitive to thermal damage. In cultured neurons, spontaneous activity stopped irreversibly between 42 and 43°C ( ...
‎Abstract <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2014.00307/full#h1> · ‎Introduction <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2014.00307/full#h2> · ‎Overview <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2014.00307/full#h3> · ‎Anatomical Consideration <https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2014.00307/full#h6>


Sub-minute prediction of brain temperature based on sleep ...https://elifesciences.org › articles <https://elifesciences.org/articles/62073>
by Y Sela · 2021 · Cited by 2 — Since heat plays a crucial role in neuronal functioning (Kiyatkin, 2010; Alonso and Marder, 2020) and brain tissue is very sensitive to thermal ...

Climate change: Impact of rising temperatures on neurological disorders
Medical News Today December 15, 2021
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/climate-change-impact-of-rising-temperatures-on-neurological-disorders
Excerpt 
The study’s lead author, Daniel Kondziella <https://ikm.ku.dk/english/contact/specialties/neurology/?pure=en/persons/416837>, a professor at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, told Medical News Today: “[This study shows that] there are very good reasons to expect a tremendous negative impact on global brain health within the near future owing to climate change. […] At the same time, there appears to be a fundamental lack of awareness of this problem within the neurological community, as evidenced by the complete absence of appropriately designed research to investigate this problem.”The study appears in the journal PerJ <https://peerj.com/articles/11941/>.

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Continued fossil fuel combustion -> increased emissions -> hotter world -> indirect bodily risk via more fiery world

How melting sea ice increases wildfire risk in the Northwest <https://news.google.com/articles/CBMicWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm9wYi5vcmcvYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDIxLzEyLzE5L2NsaW1hdGUtY2hhbmdlLXdlc3QtY29hc3QtbWVsdGluZy1zZWEtaWNlLXdpbGRmaXJlLXJpc2stcGFjaWZpYy1ub3J0aHdlc3Qv0gGAAWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm9wYi5vcmcvYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDIxLzEyLzE5L2NsaW1hdGUtY2hhbmdlLXdlc3QtY29hc3QtbWVsdGluZy1zZWEtaWNlLXdpbGRmaXJlLXJpc2stcGFjaWZpYy1ub3J0aHdlc3QvP291dHB1dFR5cGU9YW1w?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
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Neuroinflammatory and neurometabolomic consequences <https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34865172/?utm_source=Other&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=None&utm_content=0kGfdEOa3S2XiyF_iWzlPH0ZHTD42WvJO7oZMfUiGlm&fc=None&ff=20211208011728&v=2.15.0>
 Utilizing a mobile laboratory located >300 km away from wildfire smoke (WFS) ... and peripheral immune cell infiltration into the brain.

Breathing wildfire smoke can affect the brain and sperm <https://cos.northeastern.edu/nucos-media/breathing-wildfire-smoke-can-affect-the-brain-and-sperm-as-well-as-the-lungs/>
Aug 30, 2021 — A collaborative team of researchers from Northeastern University and Boise State University find that wildfire smoke can change sperm's ...

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 “I just want it to be clear that the mainstream environmental movement has been asking very little of people for decades.”

“There’s no element of, ‘We are in an emergency. We all need to do more than what we’re doing.” 

Extinction Rebellion’s radical philosophy
July 22 2019
https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/ <https://thinkprogress.org/the-radical-philosophy-of-extinction-rebellion-5857d3955b57/>

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What you see below is true of very much else, too

“EVs on their own are nowhere near enough to forestall the worst effects of climate change. But it won’t be possible to slow global warming without them.”

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/electric-vehicles-cars-climate-change-challenges-2021 <https://www.sciencenews.org/article/electric-vehicles-cars-climate-change-challenges-2021>

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