{"id":45408,"date":"2019-08-16T17:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=45408"},"modified":"2019-08-28T13:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T12:38:20","slug":"zoe-steley-and-sandy-robertson-first-aid-for-the-climate-emergency-is-better-delivered-as-a-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/08\/16\/zoe-steley-and-sandy-robertson-first-aid-for-the-climate-emergency-is-better-delivered-as-a-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoe Steley and Sandy Robertson: First aid for the climate emergency is better delivered as a team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\"><em>The Royal College of Emergency Medicine&#8217;s decision to divest from fossil fuels is a welcome step, say Zoe Steley and Sandy Robertson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One Friday morning in late June something unusual happened: we opened an email about climate change that left us feeling elated. The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) had formally passed a motion to divest from fossil fuels<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sell its shares in major oil, gas, and coal companies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">thereby using its institutional weight to help tackle the climate crisis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This moment was a welcome break from the low-grade, chronic misery that tends to afflict anyone consciously grappling with this overwhelming existential problem. A decade ago, climate change was identified as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(09)60935-1\/fulltext\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the biggest threat to global health of the 21st Century<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and last year\u2019s IPCC report made it clear that the window we have to mitigate its worst effects is now <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carbonbrief.org\/in-depth-qa-ipccs-special-report-on-climate-change-at-one-point-five-c\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">alarmingly small<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The UK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-48126677\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">parliament has declared it a climate emergency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But what are we, as emergency medicine practitioners, supposed to do about it?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A group of five of us came together around the idea that acting through our representative professional body made more sense than trying to squeeze in individual acts of planet-saving around our chaotic rotas. On board with the political, ethical and financial <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/the-logic-of-divestment-why-we-have-to-kiss-off-big-carbon-now-82438\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">logic of divestment<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the specific potential of medical professionals to stigmatise the fossil fuel industry by publicly severing ties with it, we partnered with the charity <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.medact.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Medact<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to make the case to RCEM\u2014and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcem.ac.uk\/RCEM\/News\/News_2019\/RCEM_sells_fossil_fuel_shares_and_urges_London_organisations_to_follow_suit.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it worked.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0In the UK, our college follows <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he Royal College of General Practitioners, the Faculty of Public Health, and the British Psychological Society; internationally it joins a list of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">health organisations that, to date, have divested assets worth <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.divestinvest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019.06.11-DivestInvest-Commitments.-External.xlsx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a3274m<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. [1]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The reasons for health institutions to draw a line at profiting from these companies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">like they did with Big Tobacco in the 80s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are clear, compelling, and urgent. Their core business model is to make exorbitant profit from what we (and they) have long-known is a pathogenic, insidious, ultimately malignant process: burning carbon. From its critical role as a driver of climate change through to the direct impacts of emissions, the fossil fuel industry is a threat to public health everywhere. Air pollution, to which it is a major contributor, causes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/air-pollution\/news-and-events\/how-air-pollution-is-destroying-our-health\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">seven million deaths per year worldwide<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and this statistic isn\u2019t confined to the global south<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">it\u2019s already affecting those of us living in the UK, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcplondon.ac.uk\/projects\/outputs\/every-breath-we-take-lifelong-impact-air-pollution\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">40,000 deaths per year attributable to exposure to outdoor air pollution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and straining the NHS in ways that are only beginning to be recognised.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In A&amp;E our job is to triage the most unwell patients, and be caring in a practical and decisive way. We are expert trouble-shooters, trained to think on our feet and problem-solve in an immediate, short-term way. This makes the climate emergency deeply uncomfortable, even paralysing, to think about. Like anticipating a night shift, it fills us with dread; it throws us outside our clinical comfort zones. But it\u2019s a problem that can\u2019t be sidelined any longer. Despite <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/10\/3\/031001\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the unfortunate lag between emissions and warming effects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, this is a triage-category 1 presenting complaint, on a global scale.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So, where do we start? On a pragmatic level, reining in oil, gas, and coal companies so they don\u2019t keep recklessly extracting more and more carbon to pump into the atmosphere is like &#8220;turning off the tap&#8221; in a major haemorrhage. On a moral level, divestment lines up with the non-maleficence principle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;first, do no harm.&#8221; But, like this most basic imperative in medicine, it is only a first step.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As it happens, decision-makers at RCEM are on the same page about this. A week or so later the college made a second announcement: it is setting up an environmental group to take sustainability work forward, in recognition of its relevance to the practice of emergency medicine. We are very proud that our representative body is showing leadership in the national drive towards net zero emissions, and chuffed that they have been so responsive to the concerns of a handful of (relatively) young emergency medicine doctors working hard on the shopfloor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are part of a growing group of UK medics waking up to the climate crisis and its implications for public health and NHS service delivery,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> many of whom are willing to engage in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2019\/jun\/27\/doctors-call-for-nonviolent-direct-action-over-climate-crisis\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">non-violent direct action to help sound the alarm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. This sort of action is imperative, but there are many other tools that we can and must deploy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In response to this unique, triage-category 1 emergency we collectively find ourselves in, it\u2019s time for everyone to become an environmental activist<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">no matter how busy your day job<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and the best way to do this is as part of a team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/zoe-steley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-45410\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/zoe-steley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a>Zoe Steley<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> works as an emergency medicine registrar at the Royal Free hospital in London, and as a film-maker documenting actions taken by ordinary citizens to alleviate political anxiety.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><b>Twitter:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anxiousactivism?lang=en\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@anxiousactivism<\/span><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Competing interests: <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None declared<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b><i><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/sandy-roberts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-45411 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/sandy-roberts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"131\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/sandy-roberts.jpg 1212w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/sandy-roberts-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/sandy-roberts-768x784.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/sandy-roberts-1003x1024.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/08\/sandy-roberts-640x653.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 131px) 100vw, 131px\" \/><\/a>Sandy Robertson<\/i><\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an emergency medicine ST4 and is currently out of programme working as a Barts health Education Academy Fellow<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><b>Twitter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emdrsandy?lang=en\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">@EMDrSandy<\/span><\/i><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Competing interests:<\/b> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">SR is involved with Extinction Rebellion<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>References<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[1] <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">see Tab 3 \u2018Analysis\u2019 in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.divestinvest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019.06.11-DivestInvest-Commitments.-External.xlsx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">DivestInvest data compilation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal College of Emergency Medicine&#8217;s decision to divest from fossil fuels is a welcome step, say Zoe Steley and Sandy Robertson [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/08\/16\/zoe-steley-and-sandy-robertson-first-aid-for-the-climate-emergency-is-better-delivered-as-a-team\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change","category-guest-bloggers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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