05 July, 2019

Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis.

More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for widespread nonviolent civil disobedience in the face of the environmental crisis.
The doctors are backing the school strike movement, which staged another march in London last Friday.
The doctors are backing the school strike movement,
 which staged another march in London last Friday.
In a letter to the Guardian, the doctors say government policies are “woefully inadequate”, and call on politicians and the media to face the facts of the unfolding ecological emergency and take action.
“As caring professionals we cannot countenance current policies which push the world’s most vulnerable towards progressive environmental catastrophe,” they write.
“We are particularly alarmed by the effects of rising temperatures on health and heed predictions of societal collapse and consequent mass migration. Such collapse risks damage to physical and mental health on an unprecedented scale.”

Read the story from, The Guardian by Matthew Taylor - ”Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis.” 

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