Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO

412 points by hulk14 12 hours ago on reddit | 7 comments

FatAuthority | 8 hours ago

Wait. It's not?!

Could've sworn I've been hearing them UN and WHO fellas talking about it with those words tied together since I was a kid.

I guess it's just all of the effects we have to suffer from climate change that are "public health" concerns. And not the climate itself.

It was never the climate crises' fault guys. It's ok! We can just keep milking the cow and relax. But maybe someone should look into heat resistant skin or something? Thanks. Wow, this piece of good news has me wanting to build some datacenters, anyone else game? How bout we drain them swaps amirite?

Pandemonium_Fallen | 6 hours ago

Never going to happen as long as the Rothschilds own the Global Finance and Banking Industry, and through it:

Big Oil, all the economies, governments, and Human Trafficking Networks in the world. Honestly, who do you think the billionaires work for, why do you think every government is shoving digital tracking and surveillance down their people's throats? Duh.

Vanillas_Guy | 8 hours ago

The problem is institutions are driven by their incentives. If there is no clear, immediate financial incentive to treat climate change with the seriousness it deserves, it will be ignored.

Specifically in regions that use party based representative democracy where party leaders can continue to blame each other and minorities for problems instead of taking accountability and working on achieving a shared goal.

As long as money is still more important than human life, polluting nations will only make change if the leaders of those nations are personally threatened and that threat is immediate and credible. China is an example as the party leaders realized the economy of the country is threatened as long as america still has a ton of control over petroleum and toxic air from greenhouse gasses were killing millions of workers that aren't being replaced. Their system doesnt allow for treating issues like a hot potato and blaming them on others, they had to act and so they did. By contrast, India now has FAR worse air quality and higher climate related mortality than China. Their system allows for these issues to become matters of political theater.

There are things people are doing at the local level whether its voting for higher investment in public transit and green city design in their local elections, buying shares of stock in companies building green technology, or using more legally questionable tactics to make the use of fossil fuels and emitting technology too financially risky, everyone has something they can do to support climate change resilience. To go back to China and India, people living in Kerala state are experiencing the effects of climate change and their government is responding by building renewable energy infrastructure and providing resources to local groups actively treating the health effects of climate change. The national response is inefficient and the locals are using the power they have to make a difference. In Canada, one province(BC) gets its electricity from dams while one right next to it(Alberta) is massively influenced by its oil and gas industry.

FrogsOnALog | 4 hours ago

Biden and democrats made incentives and Trump and republicans gutted them all.

costafilh0 | 4 hours ago

Do they even realize the implications of this, and that it won't help in any way to prevent or stop it, only take away people's freedom?

DAMN. I will never live in any of the big countries or those that are part of the main political blocks. They are a nightmare for freedom, and soon all their inhabitants will be living in an episode of Black Mirror, many already are, except for the rich, who obviously get a free pass.

Only the poor lose their freedom, never the rich.

ILikeNeurons | 3 hours ago

https://jointheshift.earth/guide/?journey-type=full

hpygilmr | 54 minutes ago

First it was global warming, when that didn’t flood the coasts, it switched to global cooling, it is now climate change so that it can be both warming and cooling. It is all fraud being perpetuated by paid “scientists” and the global elite so that they can mandate a climate tax and take away freedoms. Yes, as a civilization we need to do better at caring for mother earth, but the cycles we are experiencing are just that, cyclic and no amount of money is going to change El Niño, El Nina, climate cooling, climate warming, etc.