"Learning to treat the climate emergency together: social tipping interventions by the health community" is out!
Our multidisciplinary, gender-balanced group from 6 continents proposes a framework to maximize health sector influence on decarbonisation🧵1/8
thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… "The foundations of human health & health systems are being destabilised by #climatechange... It affects health systems by increasing demand for services, threatening infrastructure & supply chains, & endangering the health workforce" 2/8
https://t.co/PCZDpeNzA6thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…

"Protect public health
Promote sustainable economies
Preserve our planet
It is time to choose the world we want to live in."

The 2020 @LancetCountdown report has launched!

@CMA_Docs @CAPE_Doctors @codachange
"The COVID-19 pandemic and #Climatechange represent converging crises. Wildfires & tropical storms in 2020 have tragically shown us that we don't have the luxury of tacking one crisis alone."2/8
@LancetCountdown @CMA_Docs @codachange #LancetClimate20
lancetcountdown.org/2020-report/

This year, two of the MDs whose scholarly work on #climate I most admire, Dr Robin Stott (who wrote about his arrest in @TheLancet), & @SFU's @ttakaro, have engaged in nonviolent civil disobedience to protest our unconscionable lack of action to protect the health of children. Dr @ttakaro took to the trees to block construction of #TMX after yrs of writing reports re the lack of a proper health impact assessment on #Transmountain Pipeline.
++ support by MD leaders on panel.
How did he decide to do this? Framework at link. @UBC thelancet.com/journals/lance…