People with Disabilities are Not Innately Vulnerable (Part 23)

But when they are left out of the adaptation planning process — the consequences can be disastrous

Ghenis, co-author of the Environmental Health News best practices article, who uses a motorized wheelchair for mobility, said many government leaders don’t realize how

important something as simple as access to electricity is to people with disabilities.

Planned blackouts, a response to trying to reduce forest fires in California, “is frightening.”

“They are now saying in fire risk days, they are going to need to shut down high-voltage transmission lines.

That will lead to blackouts from between 12 hours to 2 days. 

For people with disabilities — that need to get up and down in an elevator, to plug in a wheelchair to charge, to refrigerate medication — this will be terrible.

These are the unanticipated consequences of climate change response.”

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