Here’s a great chance to interact with Irwin Redlener, the Columbia University pediatrician who built a career focused on limiting disaster impacts on children and has been a passionate champion of ending abusive policies that build generations with hindered capacities and hopes.
Redlener, who founded the Earth Institute’s National Center on Disaster Preparedness in 2003, has updated his powerful book “The Future of Us,” in which he calls for a profound reboot of how this nation gauges progress.
More: http://irwinredlener.com
The Future of Us - 2020 edition:
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-future-of-us/9780231177566
From Columbia University Press:
In The Future of Us, Dr. Redlener draws upon his four decades of professional experiences to examine our nation’s health care safety nets and special programs that are designed to protect and nurture our most vulnerable kids, but that too often fail to do so.
The book follows Dr. Redlener’s long, colorful career, from his work as a pediatrician in the Arkansas delta, to treating child abuse in a Miami hospital, to helping children in the aftermaths of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. He has served on the board of USA for Africa, cofounded the Children’s Health Fund with Paul Simon (and persuaded Joan Baez to play a benefit concert) and dined with Fidel Castro. He once sat across the table from Michael Jackson, and he has traveled with presidential candidates. But his most powerful source of motivation remains the children who face terrible adversities yet dream of becoming paleontologists, artists and marine biologists. Their stories are his springboard for discussing larger policy issues that hinder us from effectively eradicating childhood poverty and overcoming barriers to accessible health care. Persistent deprivation and the avoidable problems that accompany poverty ensnare millions of children and impact the health, prosperity and creativity of the adults they become. Dr. Redlener argues that we must drastically change our approach to meeting the needs of children ― for their sake and to ensure America’s resiliency and influence in an increasingly complex world.
Sustain What is a webcast series hosted by Andrew Revkin, founding director of the Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability.
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