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On Tuesday, The Michigan 
Center 
on 
Lifestage 
Environmental 
Exposures 
and 
Disease 
sponsored 
its 
annual “Climate Change and 
Health: 
What 
the 
Science 
Says and What We Can Do” 
forum in collaboration with 

the 
Environmental 
Health 
Sciences department of the 
School of Public Health and the 
School for Environment and 
Sustainability of the University 
of Michigan. 
Trish 
Koman, 
University 
researcher 
in 
the 
Public 
Health School and School of 
Engineering, moderated the 
event. 
She 
had 
previously 

worked on the event and 
helped choose this year’s topic 
of climate change and health.
“We wanted to talk about 
climate change and health 
because there is a really strong 
connection 
between 
what 
happens in the environment 
and public health,” Koman 
said. “And we wanted to have 
people understand the science 
and understand what they 
can do.”
The first speaker was F. 
Dubois Bowman, dean of 
the Public Health School. 
Bowman 
emphasized 
the 
University’s 
historical 
dedication to climate change 
and environmental issues, 
referencing 
a 
student-
organized 
environmental 
teach-in on the University’s 
campus 
in 
1970. 
He 
introduced the theme of 
an integrated approach to 
solving climate change.
“Our University’s history 
tells us that the issue of 
climate 
and 
health 
has 
been at the forefront of 
our concern for over a half 
century,” 
Bowman 
said. 
“The challenges and barriers 
to effective management of 
climate change and public 
health are no longer purely 
environmental — in fact, 
no longer purely scientific. 
They’re 
ethical, 
social, 
political and economic.”
John 
M. 
Balbus, 
senior adviser for public 
health 
at 
the 
National 

Institute 
of 
Environmental 
Health 
Sciences, 
echoed 
Bowman’s views on taking a 
multidisciplinary approach to 
climate change. He explained 
that the University, with a 
large variety of programs and 
resources, has the capacity to 
create integrated solutions.
“We have to think about 
solutions that are not just 
focused on climate change, 
but 
are 
focused 
on 
real 
communities and real people 
and think in an integrated 
fashion,” Balbus said. “The 
challenges that we face, and 
especially the solutions that 
need to be implemented, are 
solutions that cut across every 
single program of this school, 
whether it’s the engineering 
side, legal side, social science 
side and even the cultural 
side.”
Kim 
Knowlton, 
senior 
scientist and deputy director at 
the Natural Resources Defense 
Council focused on four key 
diverse areas, each related 
to climate change: science, 
education, law and people. 
She explained the health risks 
associated with extreme heat, 
and the impacts that legal 
action can have.
“Detroit could see by the 
2080’s a 120 percent increase 
(in heat-related mortality),” 
Knowlton said. “That’s more 
than doubling, in heat-related 
mortality, but if we go to 
a 
lower-emissions 
carbon 
pollution scenario, if we put 

94TH HE NRY RUSSE L LECTURE

ON THE DAILY: A2 AMONG MOST RESPONSIVE IN USE OF SEECLICKFIX

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY: BLACK STUDENTS ENTER 
CLASSES, READ DEMANDS

Ann Arbor was named 
one of the top 10 most 
engaged 
and 
responsive 
local 
governments 
nationally, based on the use 
of a local app. The A2 Fix 
It app allows Ann Arbor 
residents to report public 
property concerns directly 
to 
the 
city 
to 
address. 
Ann Arbor ranked eighth 
in most responsive local 
government 
nationwide, 
according to parent app 
SeeClickFix’s data.
SeeClickFix 
allows 
residents to submit requests 

to local governments in 342 
municipalities. 
Residents 
report 
concerns 
such 
as 
potholes, 
abandoned 
bicycles, downed trees and 
sidewalk maintenance. The 
company also ranked Ann 
Arbor ninth in the number 
of 
requests 
sent 
in 
by 
residents, citing an average 
of 1,800 requests per month.
In 2018, the city of Ann 
Arbor 
closed 
out 
more 
than 12,000 of the 14,000 
requests. SeeClickFix told 
MLive the data illustrates 
Ann Arbor’s devotion to 
their community and trust 
in their government. The 
City 
Council 
approved 

a 
three-year 
contract 
to 
continue 
with 
the 
SeeClickFix service at a 
total cost of $40,000.
City 
Administrator 
Howard 
Lazarus 
told 
MLive 
some 
requests 
attempt to address issues 
out of the scope of the city’s 
jurisdiction such as animal 
removal, or express opinions 
about the city. In addition, 
residents 
may 
request 
unnecessary services such 
as pruning trees. Because 
not all messages submitted 
through the system pertain 
to specific city requests, the 
SeeClickFix data might be 
skewed.

“This interferes with the 
integrity of the data that is 
reported out of the system 
in that it doesn’t reflect 
efficiency of city operations 
so 
much 
as 
it 
reflects 
the desire of residents to 
have 
city-owned 
trees 
aggressively 
pruned,” 
Lazarus told MLive.
The city has convened 
a 
committee 
to 
draft 
recommendations 
for 
improving 
the 
app’s 
functionality 
for 
the 
city. It hopes to address 
improvements 
in 
data 
reporting 
and 
train 
employees to better use the 
system.

Feb. 26, 1970
Disruptions occurred in 
several classes yesterday 
when 
black 
students 
attempted to read a list 
of demands for increased 
minority admissions. 
A 
few 
brief 
scuffles 
broke out and classes were 
cancelled in at least four 
cases when the instructors 

refused to let the blacks 
speak. Other classes were 
more peaceful when the 
students were allowed to 
present 
their 
demands. 
Most left after about ten 
minutes. 
It 
was 
unclear 
last 
night what group, if any, 
organized the actions of 
the black students. Walter 

Lewis, of the Black Students 
Union, 
said 
last 
night 
that the actions were not 
connected with a teach-
in sponsored in the Union 
yesterday 
by 
the 
Black 
Action Movement (BAM). 
The demands the black 
students read to the classes 
are part of BAM’s drive 
for 
increased 
minority 

admissions 
- 
the 
same 
demands they presented to 
the Regents last week. 
Tied to the goal of black 
enrollment in 1973 equal to 
10 percent of the University’s 
total enrollment, is a call for 
increased counseling and 
supportive services to help 
minority students adjust to 
the University. 

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limits on our carbon pollution, 
we could cut that in half.”
Knowlton felt the current 
climate 
and 
health 
issues 
present an opportunity for 
reform.
“We might think of all this as 
opportunity … to move toward 
a smarter, more strategic, more 
equitable, 
healthier, 
more 
sustainable future,” Knowlton 
said. “It is our demand to move 
toward that future that is really 
going to push this boat forward. 
It’s not going to happen as we 
sit back.”
Knowlton also highlighted 
the 
University’s 
efforts 
to 
decrease carbon dioxide, use 
more wind and solar energy and 
incentivize energy efficiency.
Questions varied during the 
panel session, ranging from the 
topic of floods to the limiting 
the carbon footprint of medical 
institutions. 
LSA 
freshman 
Ariana Mitcham asked the 

panel about helping countries 
with fewer resources approach 
climate issues while managing 
environmental issues within 
the country.
“The U.S. thinks very, very 
differently about development 
and 
about 
development 
assistance than the rest of 
the world,” Balbus said. “As 
historically one of the larger 
polluters of the atmosphere, 
(Americans) need to address 
our own actions. The rest of 
the world frames this kind 
of a question these days, to a 
large degree, in terms of the 
Sustainable 
Development 
Goals, 
from 
a 
policy 
perspective. I think one of the 
important ways to address a 
complicated interrelated set 
of 
challenges 
in 
countries 
like Myanmar is through an 
institutional framework.” 

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