Posted on 11/29/2009 8:40:04 AM PST by listenhillary
The Climate and Health Council, a collaboration of worldwide health organizations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine, believes there is a direct link between climate change and better health.
Their controversial plan would see GPs and nurses give out advice to their patients on how to lower their carbon footprint.
The Council believes that climate change threatens to radically undermine the health of all peoples.
It believes health professionals are ideally placed to promote change because we have ethical responsibility ..as well as the capacity to influence people and our political representatives to take the necessary action. (snip)
It wants to raise 'health' on the agenda of December's UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.
They believe that offering patients advice on how to lower their carbon footprint can be just as easy and achievable as helping them to stop smoking or eat a healthier diet.
Other proposals include for all developed nations to pay an extra five dollars a barrel on oil and a tax on airline tickets. This would go into a special fund to develop low-carbon alternatives to existing technologies, they say.
Prof Mike Gill, from the University of Surrey, who co-chairs the Climate and Health Council, outlined the plans for the medical journal The Lancet last week.
He said: "Climate change already affects human health, creating problems that will increase if no action is taken.
"Overall, what is good for tackling climate change is good for health. Who better to spell out this message than health professionals? "We have the evidence, a good story to tell that dramatically shifts the lens through which climate change is perceived, and we have public trust."
Continued http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/6683770/GPs-should-offer-climate-change-advice-to-patients.html
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
“very true the doctors will have to provide a list of patients who do not believe - these deniers will then be classed as mentally ill and institutions will be provided to ‘help’ them.”
Hmmm, that actually makes sense. Why have the doctors involved unless you plan to take it to the next level? Scary.
Not to discount you our your source, but common sense tells us that having more available CO2 for plants and warmer temperatures would be beneficial for man.
That is unless you think man is a cancer that is destroying Gaia.
It has possibilities:
“Mr. Smith, your calling the ambulance for continual vomiting required two people driving across town in their personal vehicles to the squad building to get the ambulance, while the first responder came directly to your house in an SUV. In going to your house, the hospital and back to the building, the ambulance will have been driven 14.3 miles, and it gets 9.3 miles per gallon. In the future you can reduce your carbon footprint by having your wife drive you to the ER with a bucket in your lap. You can reduce your footprint further by staying home from parties where you consume suspect dip and shrimps and a six-pack. Thank you.”
Doctors helping with climate change could mean nothing more than assisting the non productive to die.
Global tax ping
Of course, not everything is a “tax.” Liberals are infamous for voting in “fees.”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.