13 Urgent Science & Health Issues

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ADDITIONAL RELIABLE RESOURCES

The End Antibiotics

• United Nations: ‘Reduce Pollution to Combat Superbugs and Other Anti-Microbial Resistance’
• The Antibiotic Resistance Project (Pew Charitable Trust)
• Antimicrobial Resistance (World Health Organization)
• TED Talks: Antibiotics

Clean Drinking Water

• Safe Drinking Water Act
• Flint Water Crisis: Everything  Your Need to Know (National Resource Defense Council (NRDC))
• Biden Administration to Require Replacing of Lead Pipes Within 10 Years
• TED Talks: Water Crisis

Making Guns Safer

• Technology That Can Save Lives
• Everytown.org

Keeping Our Technological Edge

• Next Generation Science Standards
• DOD Harnessing Emerging Tech to Maintain Enduring Advantage
• Revolutionising health care: Exploring the latest advances in medical sciences
• Mayo clinic: Medical Technology
• NIH: Medical Devices
• The Future of Medicine

Protecting National Parks

• Great American Outdoors Act
• Bureau of Land Management

Meeting Our Climate Change Promises

• President Biden’s Historic Climate Agenda
• U.S. Department of State: Climate Crisis
• Climate Crisis: A Race We Can Win (United Nations)
• Climate and Environment (New York Times)

Genetically Enhanced Humans

• Human Gene Editing Initiative
• World Health Organization (WHO) Human Genome Editing
• Ted: Can We Cure Genetic Diseases by Rewriting DNA?

Nuclear Safeguards

• NATO’s nuclear deterrence policy and forces
  
• No First Use Policy

The Right to Die

• Death with Dignity
• Vermont Allows Out-of-Staters to Use Assisted Suicide Law

The Threat of Microplastics

• Microplastic Research (Environmental Protection Agency)
• National Ocean Services
• U.S. Department of State: Plastic Pollution

Tackling Obesity

• Childhood Obesity Library (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
• Healthy Food America

Abandoning Coasts

• Preparing Coastal Communities for Flooding Now and Into the Future
• Here are the U.S. cities most vulnerable to climate change, according to Moody’s

Cleaner Energy

• Energy
• Department of Energy Policies and Programs
• A New Surge in Power Use Is Threatening U.S. Climate Goals

Questions for the Candidates from Union of Concerned Scientists