{"id":51099,"date":"2021-10-08T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=51099"},"modified":"2021-10-08T13:13:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T12:13:53","slug":"climate-action-demanding-economic-systems-that-safeguard-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2021\/10\/08\/climate-action-demanding-economic-systems-that-safeguard-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate action: demanding economic systems that safeguard life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAs health and social inequalities widen, and we learn more about the power held over human lives by an ever-diminishing number of individuals and corporations, I predict that more doctors around the world will be drawn inescapably into political campaigning.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pmj.bmj.com\/content\/97\/1151\/611.full#ref-10\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Launer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At 7 am on 3 September 2021, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorsforxr.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors for Extinction Rebellion (XR)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> gathered at JP Morgan\u2019s Canary Wharf headquarters. The group consisted of more than 50 doctors, nurses, allied health professionals, and students. They had gathered to deliver an urgent public health message\u2014namely, to stop new investments into fossil fuels. Dressed in scrubs, they lay on the pavement under a banner that read <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoctorsXr\/status\/1433685236802539542\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCause of death: fossil fuel finance,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> symbolising the deaths caused by fossil fuel investment. Some sprayed the words \u201cCODE RED\u201d with chalk paint, echoing the recently published <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/ar6\/wg1\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">IPCC report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> which declared a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2021\/08\/1097362\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">code red for humanity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Their voices could be heard addressing the bank with a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorsforxr.com\/letter-to-jp-morgan\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">letter of concern<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which they <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/XRebellionUK\/status\/1435147234828488705\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tried to deliver<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to its CEO, Jamie Dimon. Before long they were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/xr-doctors-protest-canary-wharf-b1913857.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">forcibly removed<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from outside the bank by the Metropolitan Police and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mitie.com\/canary-wharf-management-ltd\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">private security guards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Six were unable to be carried off as they had superglued their hands to the pavement and planters outside the building. They remained there for three and a half hours, no longer visible to the public as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoctorsXr\/status\/1433737228438679560\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">steel barriers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> were erected around them, hiding the inconvenient truth of their message.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DoctorsXr\/status\/1433739118220095494\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Juliette Brown<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a consultant psychiatrist, was among them: \u201cI&#8217;m involved because my patients are being affected by air pollution and extreme weather. It&#8217;s now abundantly clear that if we go on investing in fossil fuels, we&#8217;ll see more destruction, disease, despair and death. Governments, banks and corporations have shown themselves unwilling to act on their promises. As a doctor I feel a duty to act on the evidence. So while it&#8217;s absurd that we have to risk arrest, we&#8217;ll continue to do this until the fossil fuel era is over and we have saved as many lives as we possibly can.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The evidence is irrefutable; the climate and ecological emergency is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/countdown-health-climate\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">greatest health crisis<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> of our time and is driven by burning fossil fuels. Although they are aware of this, many <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/bankingonclimatechaos2021\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">major banks<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> continue to provide the corporate finance that drives exploitative and extractive fossil fuel projects. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/bankingonclimatechaos2021\/#score-card-panel\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">JP Morgan is a leading investor in fossil fuel projects<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> among the big banks, having funded $317bn since the Paris Agreement came into force in 2016. As is the case for many companies, its rhetoric on climate change does not match its actions. Despite acknowledging that achieving <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/am.jpmorgan.com\/gb\/en\/asset-management\/adv\/insights\/market-insights\/market-updates\/on-the-minds-of-investors\/the-path-to-net-zero-emissions\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">net zero emissions by 2050<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is the benchmark among policymakers, its climate strategy is based on a model that aims for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/world-energy-model\/sustainable-development-scenario\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">net zero by 2070<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">; a woefully inadequate target. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The banking industry are risking the lives of people worldwide for its own profit and need to be held to account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors for XR are part of the wider movement of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/extinctionrebellion.uk\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extinction Rebellion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (XR), which uses non-violent direct action to demand urgent action to avert the climate and ecological emergency. The group\u2019s members have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/extinctionrebellion.uk\/the-truth\/demands\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">three demands<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: that the UK government tells the truth about the scale of the emergency; that it commits to zero carbon emissions by 2025; and that it agrees to a binding <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/extinctionrebellion.uk\/go-beyond-politics\/citizens-assembly\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">citizens\u2019 assembly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to devise policies to tackle the crisis. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is worth dwelling on this third demand\u2014when faced with a complex case in the NHS, we gather a multidisciplinary team of experts to help the patient navigate decisions about their treatment. The same is true for citizens\u2019 assemblies, except here, experts on the climate and ecological emergency enable citizens to vote on recommendations. Assembly members are randomly selected, similar to jury service, to reflect a range of demographics from across the country. This process avoids structural inequality and ensures that the interests of vulnerable communities are considered. It can empower nations to make informed decisions democratically, and enables politicians to enact rapid change.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">XR\u2019s focus has recently expanded from raising public awareness to lobbying against the worst corporations and most indefensible government projects. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/extinctionrebellion.uk\/act-now\/resources\/money-rebellion\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Money Rebellion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was launched, seeking to expose the deep causal link between the climate emergency and the economy, and demanding economic systems that safeguard life. XR demands system change; it avoids blaming individuals, acknowledging that we live in a toxic system. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It prioritises a regenerative culture. XR is a decentralised, autonomous group that actively <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">break down hierarchies, ensuring equitable participation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Doctors for XR joined the XR movement in 2019, citing the \u201cd<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gmc-uk.org\/ethical-guidance\/ethical-guidance-for-doctors\/good-medical-practice\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">uties of a doctor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d laid out in the GMC\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Good Medical Practice<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> guidelines as a reason to act:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou must take prompt action if you think that patient safety, dignity, or comfort may be compromised.\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The same message was stated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmc.org.uk\/standards\/guidance\/raising-concerns-guidance-for-nurses-and-midwives\/read-raising-concerns-online\/\">Nursing and Midwifery Council<\/a> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcot.co.uk\/publications\/professional-standards-occupational-therapy-practice-conduct-and-ethics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">other regulatory bodies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Medical activism has historically supported social reform\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">a US physician,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2767353\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Donald Berwick<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> believes that doctors have a moral obligation to deal with the inherent inequalities in our system: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201c<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When the fabric of communities on which health depends is torn, then healers are called to mend it.\u201d This goes for climate justice as well as the intersecting issues of race, gender, and class.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Working with other groups including <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/healthdeclares.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Health Declares<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PsychDeclares\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">PsychDeclares<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Doctors for XR lobbied several royal colleges to divest from fossil fuels and to make declarations of a climate and ecological emergency. Doctors for XR successfully campaigned to have an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gponline.com\/rcgp-pulls-plug-oil-gas-conference-protests\/article\/1671159\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">oil and gas conference barred from <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Royal College of GPs <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">in London. Other notable actions include organising for health warning labels to be stuck on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/extinction-rebellion-petrol-pump-sticker-label-xr-protest-a9694841.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">20,000 petrol pumps<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and staging a mock <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorsforxr.com\/news\/doctors-stage-mock-climate-inquest-in-parliament-square\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">climate inquest<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at Parliament Square. Doctors for XR have undertaken civil disobedience as a last resort. Dozens of health professionals have been arrested while protesting peacefully. Their actions have received public support from the World Health Organization\u2019s\u00a0 director general,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doctorsforxr.com\/news\/who\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Tedros Ghebreyesus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the editor of <em>The Lancet<\/em>, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2x6sBfV64N4&amp;t=1s\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Horton<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">XR has been protesting for two years, during which the debate around the environment has transformed. XR\u2019s controversial tactics of civil disobedience have proved divisive. Yet the cause was never to win public affection\u2014the group notes that historically, proponents of social change were disliked by wider society\u2014and it has propelled the climate crisis up the agenda. It was after a series of XR protests that the UK Parliament became the first to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-48126677\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">declare a climate emergency<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A recent UN poll found that<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/publications\/peoples-climate-vote#modal-publication-download\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> belief in the climate emergency was highest in the UK and Italy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, both at 81%.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since the recent demonstration, Doctors for XR have been returning to Canary Wharf in small groups in ongoing protest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Amelia Cussans<\/strong>, psychiatry trainee, London <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drameliacussans?lang=en\">@DrAmeliaCussans<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/psychdeclares?lang=en-gb\">@PsychDeclares<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Ali Rowe<\/strong>, former mental health nurse, Bristol <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doctorsxr?lang=en\">@DoctorsXr<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Conflicts of interest<\/strong>: none declared.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAs health and social inequalities widen, and we learn more about the power held over human lives by an ever-diminishing number of individuals and corporations, I predict that more doctors [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2021\/10\/08\/climate-action-demanding-economic-systems-that-safeguard-life\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":51100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-change"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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