A healthy planet means healthy people

Eating local fresh food can reduce your risk of
chronic disease and reduces food
 miles and reliance on processed foods.

Humanity has been slow to grasp the implications of rising greenhouse gases and what they might do to the planet’s basic life-support systems.

One sector of the global community that is especially pleased to see climate change addressed is the health sector.

The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change galvanized us into thinking seriously about climate change and what it will mean for the health of the world’s population.

Climate change threatens the wonderful gains that have been achieved over the last century: we have brought millions out of poverty, increased access to clean water and food, and reduced global maternal and child mortality rates.

Read what GP and health systems expert Grant Blashki has to say about why we should prepare our health systems for climate change impacts “A healthy planet means healthy people.”