Women and the precautionary principle. We can never be sure if the symptoms are signaling an onset of a cold, the flu or more serious diseases like malaria - so the rule of common sense applies.
Most parents use generic methods to soothe the ailment long before doctors intervene.
By nature, we are survivors, and as a rule, we don't like to take chances when it comes to our family's health. The same survival techniques should apply to climate change. We are all aware that the long-term effects of global warming on our health, food supplies and human settlements may not be scientifically proven until it is too late. We would need the strength of the Hindu goddess, Durga, with her many fingers on thousands of hot spots all over the world, to monitor the earth's progress. The fact that science is incomplete and global tracking is mostly a guessing game is bad nees for the majority of the world's poor women.