Climate alarmism is the real threat to public health
Slowing down economic development is far more dangerous than global warming.
9th September 2021
So climate change is now a ‘health emergency’ is it?
That was certainly the message from US president Joe Biden last week, after he launched the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. It will reportedly explore how a warming, changing climate poses an immediate, existential threat to people’s health. As Gina McCarthy, the White House national climate-change adviser, put it: ‘Climate change is fundamentally a health threat.’
Then, almost right on cue, more than 200 health journals announced that they, too, believe that climate change should be understood principally as a health threat. This argument will be outlined in a shared editorial demanding world leaders take emergency action on climate change and protect health.
To be published ahead of COP26 by the likes of the British Medical Journal, the Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, the already press-released editorial is brimful with pompous hyperbole: ‘We – the editors of health journals – call for urgent action to keep average global temperature increases below 1.5 degree Celsius, halt the destruction of nature, and protect health.’ It demands governments make ‘urgent, society-wide changes’, or else ‘the catastrophic harm to health… will be impossible to reverse’.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/09/09/climate-alarmism-is-the-real-threat-to-public-health/
