Climate Lunacy: GPs Should Offer Carbon Footprint Advice
If anyone thought that climate alarmism couldn’t get any sillier, think again:
The Climate and Health Council, a collaboration of worldwide health organisations including the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal Society of Medicine, believes there is a direct link between climate change and better health.
Their controversial plan would see GPs and nurses give out advice to their patients on how to lower their carbon footprint.
The Council believes that climate change “threatens to radically undermine the health of all peoples”.
It believes health professionals are ideally placed to promote change because “we have ethical responsibility…..as well as the capacity to influence people and our political representatives to take the necessary action”.
The Council has been recently formed to study the health benefits of tackling climate change and promotes a range of ideas from reducing your carbon footprint by driving less and walking more to eating local, less processed food.
It wants to raise ‘health’ on the agenda of December’s UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.
The Telegraph: GPs ’should offer climate change advice to patients’
CRN comment: CO2 is correlated with GDP – more CO2 emitted means more wealth, means greater patient longevity. The average life expectancy in Glasgow is 69.3 years, in Kensington and Chelsea it is 85.8 years – suggesting greater wealth and a larger ‘carbon footprint’ means a longer life. Also, CRN recently posted on the fact that the number of deaths during the coldest three months of 2008/09 were up almost 50 per cent on the previous year to 36,700, sending an extra 10,000 pensioners to early graves. The rise in “excess winter mortality” for England and Wales for the three months to February was the biggest for years and the highest total in a decade, sparking fresh calls for ministers to combat high energy prices. This puts the repeated ad nauseum 2000 UK excess deaths in the 2003 summer heatwave in proper perspective, doesn’t it!?
So, what have we learned here? Cold is much more deadly than heat, wealth means you can afford to keep warm, and you have a better chance of living longer than poorer people with a lower ‘carbon footprint.’ We’ve also learned that a small number of silly people on the pointless ‘Climate and Health Council’ have made thousands of doctors and nurses look equally silly.
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