{"id":46024,"date":"2019-11-08T17:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T16:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=46024"},"modified":"2019-11-15T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T14:28:58","slug":"actions-that-health-professionals-can-take-to-counter-the-climate-emergency-and-improve-their-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/11\/08\/actions-that-health-professionals-can-take-to-counter-the-climate-emergency-and-improve-their-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Actions that health professionals can take to counter the climate emergency and improve their health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Smith calls on readers to help with his list of things we can do to counter the climate emergency<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I have recently become the chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change<\/a>, <\/span>and one of things I would like to do is to encourage as many health professionals as possible to make changes in their own lives to counter the climate emergency and improve their own health. To that end I have devised a list of possible actions, and I\u2019d welcome your additions, deletions, and comments.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

People can feel powerless about their capacity to do anything about the climate emergency, but there are, of course, many things you can do\u2014and here is a list of easy, less easy, and least easy actions. You will, I hope, be doing many of them already, but I doubt that no health professional, no matter how concerned about the climate emergency, does all these things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Travel<\/b><\/p>\n

Easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Reduce the amount you drive
\n<\/span>Reduce the amount you fly
\n<\/span>Use public transport whenever possible
\n<\/span>Replace driving with walking and cycling<\/span><\/p>\n

Less easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Commit to no more than one return flight a year
\n<\/span>Drive no more than 2000 miles a year<\/span><\/p>\n

Least easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Stop flying
\n<\/span>Sell your car<\/span><\/p>\n

Diet<\/b><\/p>\n

Easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Reduce the amount of meat that you eat (recognising that the order of amounts of carbon emissions resulting from meats in descending order is beef, lamb, pork, chicken, fish)<\/span><\/p>\n

Less easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Stop eating meat and fish<\/span><\/p>\n

Least easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Become (or remain) Vegan<\/span><\/p>\n

Home<\/b><\/p>\n

Easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Switch to a supplier of sustainable energy (easy to do and will probably save you money)
\n<\/span>Turn down heating and turn off lights
\n<\/span>Avoid using a tumble drier
\n<\/span>Wash sheets and clothes less often
\n<\/span>Bath and shower less often
\n<\/span>If you don\u2019t have a pet don\u2019t get one<\/span><\/p>\n

Less easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Consult with a company making houses greener and follow their advice
\n<\/span>Arrange for insulation of your roof
\n<\/span>Install solar panels
\n<\/span>Install thermostats in all rooms and ensure no heating of empty rooms
\n<\/span>Use smart power<\/span><\/p>\n

Least easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t have more than two children
\n<\/span>Replace gas boiler
\n<\/span>Aim to achieve net-zero carbon in your house<\/span><\/p>\n

Shopping<\/b><\/p>\n

Easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Do not buy or use disposable plastic bags
\n<\/span>Use a single cup for purchased hot drinks
\n<\/span>Buy less, particularly clothes
\n<\/span>Buy what clothes you do from charity and second-hand shops
\n<\/span>Reduce purchases of processed foods
\n<\/span>Buy as few electronic goods as possible
\n<\/span>Use those goods you have for as long as possible
\n<\/span>Do not regularly replace your phone<\/span><\/p>\n

Less easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Commit to buying no new clothes for a year
\n<\/span>Buy no processed foods
\n<\/span>Buy no electronic goods<\/span><\/p>\n

Least easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Do not buy anything except food and drink unless it\u2019s unavoidable<\/span><\/p>\n

With your patients<\/b><\/p>\n

Easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Put leaflets about how people can improve their health and reduce their carbon footprint in your waiting room or outpatient clinics
\n<\/span>Put up posters with the same information
\n<\/span>Help patients who use inhalers to move to greener versions<\/span><\/p>\n

Less easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Whenever the opportunity arises talk to patients about how they can improve their health and reduce their carbon footprint<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever possible move patients from drug responses to their problem to non-drug responses<\/span><\/p>\n

Least easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Offer the chance to ALL patients to discuss with you how they can improve their health and reduce their carbon footprint<\/span><\/p>\n

Prescribe to patients a way to improve their health and reduce their carbon footprint and monitor their progress<\/span><\/p>\n

Your organisation<\/b><\/p>\n

Easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Campaign within your organisation for it to make changes to reduce its carbon footprint and make it greener.<\/span><\/p>\n

Less easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Join the discussion to work out how to make clinical care greener<\/span><\/p>\n

Least easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Make your clinical care greener<\/span><\/p>\n


\nAdvocacy<\/b><\/p>\n

Easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Write to your MP and counsellors about climate change and health
\n<\/span>Join organisations campaigning on the climate emergency
\n<\/span>Do not vote for anybody in any election (in your college, for example) who does not propose action on the climate emergency
\n<\/span>Write to newspaper about the problem
\n<\/span>Use social media to urge action
\n<\/span>Join radio phone-ins on the climate emergency<\/span><\/p>\n

Less easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Join protests about the climate emergency
\n<\/span>Talk to at least one new person each day about the climate emergency<\/span><\/p>\n

Least easy<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Run in an election (local, professional, national) on an agenda of action on the climate emergency
\n<\/span>Join Extinction Rebellion and get arrested<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Richard Smith<\/strong>\u00a0was the editor of <\/em>The BMJ until 2004.<\/em><\/p>\n

Competing interest<\/strong>: RS is the unpaid chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. The BMA and the BMJ are members of the Alliance, and the two employees of the Alliance are based in the BMJ offices.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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