Climate crisis: what do we do if they ignore us?

Thank you for the recent joint editorial on the global health emergency; I applaud the 200 journals sounding the alarm.1 Strong leadership and advocacy are needed more than ever from across the medical profession. The question now is what we do if these calls are not heard, and COP28 fails to deliver in the same way as COP27 before it? What do we do when our current prime minister wants to water down net zero commitments and licence exploration for new oil and gas which, if burnt, will take us beyond agreed global warming limits?2The day this article was published, two health professionals were arrested for spraying the dinosaur in the Natural History Museum in London, a symbol of the possibility of extinction that looms large in our collective consciousness, with wipeable orange cornflour spray, carrying a sign that read: “For health’s sake, Just Stop Oil.”3 These brave people are…
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