New Diseases Caused by Environmental Pollution
Wild Card's progress: basic
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 1 - Health
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Other actions across health themes
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2050
Wild Card's description
Environmental pollution rises immensely due to a higher energy production relying on conventional technologies such as coal-fired power plants. Moreover, the traffic volume grows while sticking to the combustion motor. New life-threatening diseases are created and existing health problems and diseases caused by environmental pollution become worse and more wide-spread. Eventually, sustainability becomes much more important to society.
