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Climate change
Richard Smith: Communicating about climate change—think audience and messenger
Climate Outreach, leaders in communicating about climate change, do not aim to proselytise, sell, or persuade, but rather fulfil people’s “right to know.” Just as people have a right to […]
It’s time for the health community to back a Green New Deal
In 2009, the Lancet Commission on Climate Change and Health concluded that climate change is the biggest public health threat of the twenty-first century. Over a decade later, calls for […]
Richard Smith: Emotional distress (not mental health) and climate change
The main thing I learnt from a webinar on mental health and climate change organized by Climate Cares is that we should stop talking about mental health and use instead […]
Matthew Sawyer: How to discuss the climate crisis with patients
It can feel daunting to bring up complex issues with patients around carbon emissions and the climate crisis. How can this be fitted in with everything else during a consultation? […]
Building back better with a National Nature Service
“Even with all our medical technologies, we cannot have well humans on a sick planet”—Thomas Berry As 2020 threw us into a world of social distancing, health services had to […]
What can clinicians say to patients who ask about climate change?
We talk to patients about the perils of smoking, but are we ready to talk to patients about the more dangerous perils of climate change? Many health professionals will baulk […]
The health community must act on air pollution as an issue of health justice
On Wednesday 16 December 2020, air pollution was recorded as a cause of death for the first time, following a second inquest into the death of 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in […]
Aarti Bansal and Grant Blashki: Six steps to both greener and better primary care
Most primary care clinicians are well aware that the climate crisis is a health crisis and of the immediate and significant health co-benefits of climate action, such as through reduced […]
Alistair Wardrope: Putting health and climate justice at the heart of COP 26
Climate breakdown, “the greatest threat to global health of the 21st century” is driven by the same political and economic systems that are exacerbating health inequities, so starkly amplified by […]