ABSTRACT
Although there is a growing awareness that climate change and ozone layer depletion pose problems for human society, as discussed in the previous chapter, the consequences for human wellbeing of these global atmospheric changes has been less well anticipated. The health hazards posed by these changes would, to a large extent, differ qualitatively from those due to the direct-acting toxicity of local environmental pollutants. Hence, the advent of these global atmospheric changes is markedly broadening the scope of contemporary environmental health problems (McMichael, 1993; McMichael & Martens, 1995).
