Uma intervenção no meio ambiente tem inquietado muitos pesquisadores que consideram um risco reviver uma espécie extinta. Os envolvidos são os mamutes, paquidermes peludos extintos há milhares de anos. Em cadáveres de mamutes recuperados de locais como a Sibéria, estão sendo conduzidas buscas por células somáticas com núcleos viáveis para, posteriormente, ser tentada a sua inserção em zigotos anucleados de elefantes.
COOPER, A. The Year of Mammoth. PLoS Biol, n. 3, mar. 2006 (adaptado).
O método citado é denominado clonagem embrionária porque
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7More ‘climate-friendly’ investments in transport, energy and housing could help prevent significant noncommunicable disease, WHO review finds
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5“Some climate change mitigation measures yield broader health gains than others,” says Dr Maria Neira, director of WHO’s Department of Public Health and Environment. “Potential health benefits – as well as certain risks – should be considered more systematically in climate assessments. And if that is done, we can identify strategies that are truly win-win.”
2Many forms of asthma and allergies, as well as heart disease and strokes related to increasingly intense heat waves and cold spells could be addressed by more climate-friendly housing measures, the report finds.
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— 3Deaths of more than 1 million people annually from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to indoor air pollution from traditional biomass and coal-fired stoves are largely avoidable with more energy efficient stoves. An estimated 15% of this burden in Latin American and Sub-Saharan African could potentially be averted in less than a decade if more advanced biomass or biogas stoves were introduced at a pace compatible with UN targets for achieving universal access to modern energy services by the year 2030.
“This series explains why green housing and home energy, transport, and urban environments can improve our health – and why the health sector can prevent much disease, at very little cost, by advocating for healthier investments in some key sectors,” says WHO’s Dr Carlos Dora, an epidemiologist and coordinator of the series.
As much as 1180% of chronic disease is now occurring in lower income countries, where urban growth is driving rapid slum expansion, soaring traffic volumes, air and water pollution and rates of traffic injury.
“9People really cannot make healthy lifestyle choices – unless they have a healthier environment,” Dora observes. “So we, as health professionals, need to promote basic environmental measures that cost the health sector very little, and can avoid many subsequent years of treatment. And these health savings can be captured immediately – while the climate benefits accumulate for the future.”
Glossário:
change – mudança
choice –escolha
disease – doença
finding – descoberta
gain – ganho
health – saúde
heart – coração
housing – habitação
income – renda
measure – medida
mitigation – redução
slum – favela
stove – fogão
yield – produzir, render
Fonte: Disponível em: . Acesso em: 10 jul. 2012.
Considere os trechos a seguir.
I. “People really cannot make healthy lifestyle choices – unless they have a healthier environment” (ref. 9).
II. “a new global World Health Organization series that looks systematically” (ref. 10).
III. “80% of chronic disease is now occurring in lower income countries” (ref. 11).
Os segmentos sublinhados em I, II e III apresentam ideia de, respectivamente,
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Verdamarelo
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Não.
Dá azar.
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