Abstract

GORGA, Marcelo. CLIMATE CHANGE AND ITS EFFECTS ON HEALTH. rev.latinoam.bioet. [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.1, pp.80-103. ISSN 1657-4702.  https://doi.org/10.18359/rlbi.1446.

There are many health risks associated with climate change and particularly affect those populations in conditions of poverty. Based on critical analysis of scientific publications on health and climate change, we'll try to answer the question on what values and human rights could be problematized on the matter. We think that health determinants created by climate change would be a potential limitation to human capabilities, understood by Martha Nussbaum as a manifestation of human freedom to be and to do. We mention Hans Jonas thought concerning the need to have fear of the consequences of our lack of action. We conclude that profound contextual changes associated with climate change should promote the question about their potential effects on neurodevelopment of children living in areas of disasters associated with it. Simultaneously, in a perspective where bioethics and neuroethics converge, climate change serves to highlight the responsibility that human beings have, individually and collectively, in the construction of present and future conditions of child development; and particularly, when it occurs in poverty conditions.

Keywords : Bioethics; neuroethics; climatec change; health.

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