The need for medical voices in the climate change debate gathers pace following the Lancet/UCL Commission, Professor Sir Muir Gray’s call-to-arms in The Times, and letters to the paper from medical leaders.
The health impacts of climate change in the context of water stress are set out in an essay in Saturday’s paper, while funding has now been secured for all NHS staff to see Age of Stupid, the much-talked about environmental film starring Pete Postlethwaite as a man looking back on society from the devastated world of 2055.
The British Medical Journal, Lancet, Royal Colleges of Physicians and Obstetricians & Gynaecologists, NHS Sustainable Development Unit, Campaign for Greener Healthcare and the Climate and Health Council have stumped up the money for the film’s licence fee to ensure the message gets out... And given the NHS’s own carbon footprint is 3 per cent of the entire country’s carbon output, no bad thing that its staff set an example...
