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.

Community health should be 'key' election issue

Prof Anthony McMichael.

Climate change, according to Professor Anthony McMichael, should be a key issue at the coming Federal Election.

Prof McMichael, a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellow with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, is concerned that Australians are more concerned about GDP than health.

Writing on The Conversation in a story headed: “Why climate change should be a key election issue”, he argues that although the GDP and affiliated matters are  important, such discussions are about short-term issues and the conversation should really be focused on population welfare, health, survival and social stability.