Abstract
Climate Change Highlights a Potentially Dangerous Trade-off.
Highlights
In Cuba, as elsewhere, environmental issues derive from complex interactions among nature, society, the economy and politics
As identified in 2012 by the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, the main environmental problems faced by Cuba are soil degradation, forest coverage, contamination, loss of biological diversity, shortages and difficulties related to water availability and quality, and the impact of climate change
In Cuba, we have no data on asbestos-related deaths per se, but we have observed a rise in cancer deaths and in cancer death rates; cancer has overtaken heart disease as the number one cause of death in Cuba
Summary
In Cuba, as elsewhere, environmental issues derive from complex interactions among nature, society, the economy and politics. As identified in 2012 by the Ministry of Science, Technology and the Environment, the main environmental problems faced by Cuba are soil degradation, forest coverage, contamination (from liquid and solid wastes, atmospheric emissions, noise, chemical products and dangerous dumping), loss of biological diversity, shortages and difficulties related to water availability and quality, and the impact of climate change. There is one problem: fibrocement contains asbestos fibers.
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