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Prognosis: Disaster
PROGNOSIS: DISASTER SECOND EDITION is a book about human induced environmental change and disease. Climate change, global warming and deforestation threaten human, animal, and plant populations with diseases more virulent than previously known. Most of this book deals with diseases influenced by climate change and how humans influence their creation and spread. This book will be useful as a reference on disease and environmental science, and as a call to action. Unless we take active measures now to stop pollution and greed, all life on the planet is doomed.
Author Spotlight Interview with David Arieti and Jacob Nieva
David Arieti and Dr. Jacob Nieva, authors of the book “Prognosis Disaster: How Climate Change and Disease Will Ruin your Life Unless…” raise public awareness about the danger of climate change, particularly its connection to diseases. Arieti’s background in studying microbes in the Sea of Galilee influenced his focus on how warming waters lead to toxic algae blooms that pose health risks. They aim for the book to serve as a comprehensive resource on the microbiological and geophysical features of climate change. By understanding these issues, humans can take meaningful action to prevent ecological damage.
The story of
David Arieti
David Arieti has been involved in environmental issues for almost forty years. He went to the University of Denver for his BA degree in Science Area Major. He worked on The Sea of Galilee where he did algal research. He returned to the US where he earned his MS degree in Marine Science from Long Island University. He worked studying the effects of chlorine produced oxidants on Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. He then worked at consulting firms in Washington D.C. where he worked on projects that dealt with the fate of pesticides in the soil; health effects on people working with the dyeing and finishing of textiles, and food additives.
He then worked at the Baltimore Environmental Center as research director where he worked on hazardous waste issues. He also worked on the Hudson River studying the fish that were prevented from entering the waterways used to cool the condensers from the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant in New York. David also began teaching Environmental Science and Biology as an adjunct professor at various colleges in Maryland and Illinois, where he is today. He has been the recipient of three best Teacher-of-the-Year awards at three different colleges. In 1996 he won at Columbia College, in 2002 he won at Oakton Community College, and in 2005 he won at Daley College; all three colleges are in the Chicago vicinity.
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