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Doctors sign open letter calling for action on climate change

Various doctors’ groups warn that the climate emergency is also a public health emergency and call for change as a ‘top priority’.

Mike Simpson by Mike Simpson
15-09-2021 15:40
in News
Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

Image by Free-Photos from Pixabay

Climate emergency is a public health emergency which must get top priority this decade, Australian doctors have warned.

In an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison, which comes just weeks before a major climate conference in Glasgow, they say Australia must significantly lift its commitment to the global effort to bring climate change under control in order to save lives and protect health.

The letter calls on the Prime Minister to commit to an ambitious national plan to protect health by cutting Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions and aligning them to science-based targets. It must happen this decade, the doctors urge.

‘Imminent health threats’ posed by climate change

Numerous medical organisations have signed the letter. Among them are the Australian Medical Association, The Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, and The Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine.

“As doctors, we understand the imminent health threats posed by climate change and have seen them already emerge in Australia. The 2019-2020 bushfire season in Australia saw parts of the country afflicted by the poorest air quality in the world, with large numbers of the population enduring weeks of bushfire smoke and the related adverse health impacts,” the letter states.

“That climate disaster also tragically took more than 30 lives as a direct result of the fires. Since then, we have seen the stark impacts of extreme weather events playing out in the northern hemisphere in 2021. Flooding, fires and heatwaves not only have immediate health risks, but also come with the longer-term physical, economic and mental impacts of displacement, loss of life and loss of livelihoods.”

In the letter, the doctors and medical colleges said the Government’s plan to cut Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions should include policies that accelerate the transition to renewable energy and acknowledge its health benefits. It said the plan must also increase Australia’s Nationally Determined Contribution to the Paris Agreement at UN climate negotiations (COP26), in line with limiting global warming to 1.5 C.

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Doctors are seeing the realities in their surgeries

“The government must urgently act to significantly reduce emissions this decade. Severe fires, superstorms and floods have arrived and are destroying lives,” Dr Omar Khorshid said.

Doctors for the Environment Australia Chair, Dr John Van Der Kallen, said doctors are already dealing with the reality of climate change in their surgeries and in emergency departments.

“Failure to act urgently on climate change risks unmanageable threats to the health of all Australians,” Dr Van Der Kallen stated.

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