Doctors warn on climate failure
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8257766.stm
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Failure to agree a new UN climate deal in December will bring a "global health catastrophe", say 18 of the world's professional medical organisations.Writing in The Lancet and the British Medical Journal, they urge doctors to "take a lead" on the climate issue.
In a separate editorial, the journals say that people in poor tropical nations will suffer the worst impacts.
They argue that curbing climate change would have other benefits such as more healthy diets and cleaner air.
December's UN summit, to be held in Copenhagen, is due to agree a new global climate treaty to supplant the Kyoto Protocol.
But preparatory talks have been plagued by lack of agreement on how much to cut greenhouse gas emissions and how to finance climate protection for the poorest countries.
"There is a real danger that politicians will be indecisive, especially in such turbulent economic times as these," according to the letter signed by leaders of 18 colleges of medicine and other medical disciplines across the world.
"Should their response be weak, the results for international health could be catastrophic."
Earlier in the year, The Lancet, together with University College London (UCL), published a major review on the health impacts of climate change.
Some of the headline findings were that rising temperatures are likely to increase transmission of many infectious diseases, reduce supplies of food and clean water in developing countries, and raise the number of people dying from heat-related conditions in temperate regions.
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acontradiction:
Absolute nonsense. You are obviously unaware of all the good work that the UN does and has done.
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Vierotchka
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msltj20
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is that a bow in her hair????????
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msltj20
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msltj20:
sad isn't it?
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oh_dear
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maasanova
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The BBC posts a picture of a starving child, however nowhere in the article is there any evidnece that the child is starving because of global warming.
We could probably solve a lot of the world's problems by helping out with proper sanitation along with stopping current provisions in some countries which PAY farmers NOT to grow crops instead of focusing on problems which may or may not happen.
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maasanova
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Vierotchka
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This is why the Climate Change/Global Warming deniers are both dangerous and evil.
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Vierotchka
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keviar
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Vierotchka:
no one is evil. just misinformed in ignorant bliss. well maybe those corporate few are fucking greedy; but they aren't psychopaths.
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keviar
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Vierotchka
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Vierotchka:
Wrong - there are millions of people who don't care, who are not willing to make the choices and lifestyle changes necessary, who don't give a damn about their children and future generations but prefer to continue polluting and indiscriminately consuming. Those people are evil.
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Vierotchka
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ALLNATURALVEGANS
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Vierotchka:
I agree Vierotchka, not changing your ways to improve the lives of others is evil...
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ALLNATURALVEGANS
