Contact: Rebecca Spargo rspargo@bma.org.uk 020-738-36174 BMJ-British Medical Journal Global environmental change and health: impacts, inequalities, and the health sector Climate change will have a huge impact on human health and bold environmental policy decisions are needed now to protect the world’s population, according to the author of an article published in the BMJ today. The threat to human health is of a more fundamental kind than is the threat to the world’s economic system, says Professor McMichael, a Professor of public health from the Australian National University. “Climate change is beginning to damage our natural life-support system,” he says. The...