Doctors Demand Climate Action To Prevent Biggest Global Health Threat

by Mike Smith · 2009-09-20 11:38:00 UTC
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Doctors are repeating calls that climate change is likely to represent "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century" in the run up to a big UN conference in Copenhagen in December. Leaders will be hoping draw up a new treaty to replace the Kyoto Treaty.

In a letter appearing in the The Lancet and the British Medical Journal doctors from around the world, representing 18 medical associations, are "calling on medical practitioners everywhere to put pressure on politicians in advance of the meeting" reports the Independent. And of course, as we are told time and time again, it's the world's poor who are going to feel the effect of climate change the most — rising sea levels, drought, and huge food security issues. The issues may begin to sound trivial after hearing about them so many times, so let's repeat: Climate change will represent "the biggest global health threat of the 21st century."

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