Climate and Health: the discussion we have to have

“I can’t tell people to choose different air to breathe, or to choose different weather,” writes Dr Tim Senior in arguing, below, for a policy response to the health impacts of climate change. 

Worryingly, Dr Senior reports already seeing people in his own practice who have been affected by events linked to climate change and, by drawing on the government’s own research, he predicts that this is likely to become a much more serious problem in the future.

Unfortunately the political agenda appears to be focused myopically on “illness” policy problems – such as the rate of bulkbilling – but Dr Senior suggests some important reading material that could change the views of politicians and encourage them to address this significant and under-rated threat to the long term health of our community.

Read the Croakey story - “Climate and Health: the discussion we have to have.”