Public health and social stability under threat - Prof Armstrong

Prof Bruce Armstrong.

“People tend to look at climate change as just temperatures getting a little hotter and that being something they can manage.

“They don’t seriously see the impacts that will flow from a small increase in the average temperature where the net effect will be enormous”: so says Emeritus professor Bruce Armstrong, of the University of Sydney’s school of public health.

Prof Armstrong is quoted in a Guardian story headed: “Researchers tackle link between climate change and public health”.

The story reports that climate change may threaten Australians’ livelihoods, affect the viability of communities and put pressure on social stability.