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Noon Wednesday: Is a Healthy Climate a Human Right?

The head of the WDNR is calling climate change “one of the defining issues of our time.”

Aired 10/02/2019

Here and Now

Noon Wednesday: Is a Healthy Climate a Human Right?

Clip: Season 1800 Episode 1814 | 14m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

The head of the WDNR is calling climate change “one of the defining issues of our time.”

The head of Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is calling climate change “one of the defining issues of our time” and urging a return to researching it. As farmers struggle to protect their crops, communities find themselves under water and livelihoods impacted, our guest Sumudu Atapattu says we should be looking at climate change as a human rights issue.

Aired 10/02/2019

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