Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency | The BMJ
200 journal editors demand the WHO take immediate action:
The three preconditions for WHO to declare a situation to be a public health emergency of international concern are that it is serious, sudden, unusual, or unexpected; carries implications for public health beyond the affected state’s national border; and may require immediate international action. Climate change seems to fulfil all those conditions.
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Health professionals must be powerful advocates for both restoring biodiversity and tackling climate change for the good of health. Political leaders must recognise both the severe threats to health from the planetary crisis and the benefits that can flow to health from tackling the crisis.26 But, first, we must recognise this crisis for what it is: a global health emergency.
They did such an excellent job with Covid-19, WHO should be put in charge of a global climate emergency, where technocratic elite know what is best – and to silence all dissent. That sounds like a great plan!
Read the Responses section at the linked paper. We need to take instant action, they say – probably like the items on the list of what “experts” insist we must do right away:
- Ban all meat consumption
- Ban all dogs and cats (they consume meat)
- Ban all dairy, including milk, cheese and ice cream
- Ban all but official, government approved travel, perhaps for decades.
- Establish a global digital ID system to track each individual’s estimated (from a model!) carbon emissions
- And so much more!
Which do you support?
