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5 Ways Climate Change Will Affect Your Health, Plus How to Cope

POSTED 5 Jun 2009 | COMMENTS {} VOTES

I certainly hope that climate change won't makeover the world like that movie Waterworld. Can you imagine your fate hanging in the hands of a gill-imbued Kevin Costner. Those kinds of thoughts keep me up at night.

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