Preventing disastrous climate change will help us prevent environmental changes, direct effects and ecological shifts that will affect children and health.
- By creating communities where active transportation such as walking and cycling is easy, safe and accessible, we will reduce currently unprecedented rates of adult and childhood obesity.
- By creating more efficiently-designed communities, emergency services will be more accessible and effective. More people will have access to health services, even with rising costs for fuel.
- By creating communities that are closer-knit and supportive, crime rates will decrease.
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