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Medical Journals Call for Emergency Action on Climate Change
An editorial published in more than 200 medical journals worldwide is calling for emergency action on the so-called climate crisis, ahead of COP26, the United Nations-led conference that will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, in November. The editorial was written by a group of editors from esteemed medical journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, and the British Medical Journal.
The editorial, released September 5, claims that the world can no longer wait for the COVID-19 pandemic to pass before addressing the issue and that “climate change” is already affecting global health.
“Health is already being harmed by global temperature increases and the destruction of the natural world, a state of affairs health professionals have been bringing attention to for decades. The science is unequivocal: a global increase of 1.5° C above the pre-industrial average and the continued loss of biodiversity risk catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse. Despite the world’s necessary preoccupation with Covid-19, we cannot wait for the pandemic to pass to rapidly reduce emissions,” the editorial states.
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