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The duty of care that health professionals have for their patients needs to be matched with a duty of care for the planet, argues Fran Baum
How did we arrive at the position where we devote so many resources to healthcare and yet have totally dropped the ball on caring for our planet? If the planet were a person she would be assessed as being dangerously, even fatally, ill. Her vital signs are not good.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1 has produced six reports based on the work of multiple scientists around the world. The reports found that the health of the planet is declining faster than the reports can keep up with, and that the planet is sicker than the latest report indicated. So the panel has produced more timely indicators on the state of our sick planet.2 It shows that the annual total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and concentrations of the three main GHGs in the atmosphere have increased, and the global mean surface temperatures across the whole world
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