Posted on 06/24/2015 6:18:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Climate change, if left unchecked, threatens to undermine the last half century of gains in global health. That's the conclusion of a study released Monday by an international commission convened by the Lancet, a prestigious medical journal based in the UK. Declaring it a "medical emergency," the authors argued that the potential impacts of global warmingsuch as floods, drought, heat stress, catastrophic storms, the spread of disease, and increased food insecuritypose a "potentially catastrophic risk" to human health.
The study's authors, however, highlight a potential sliver of good news: Tackling the issue immediately presents "the greatest global health opportunity of the 21st century."
Confronting climate changeand therefore achieving better public health and a decarbonized global economyis no longer a technical or economic question, the report states. The primary barrier is political. "Bold political commitment can ensure that the technical expertise, technology, and finance to prevent further significant climate change is readily available, and is not a barrier to action."
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Where do all these idiots come from?
We have to act now before it is too late again!
I’m right there with you. I have always wished I was born in 1850 or so.
Now look what we’re dealing with. An out of control tyrannical movement that has zero opposition.
Happened in 1930's Germany and 1900's Russia. This is nothing new.
That is sounding a lot like agenda 21 thinking, if you can call it thinking. I would think rural vs urban health statistics might be necessary here.
You probably wouldn't enjoy 19th century medical knowledge and care.
You sound like every leftist hairpuller with whom I've ever discussed global warming or pollution or country music or species extinction or GMOs.
I look forward to your opus.
This is going to be interesting.
Using modern medical techniques doesn't increase gloBULL climate change.
A “medical emergency”?
Well then somebody needs to call a Whaaaaaa-mbulance!
Why torture your parrot?
The root of insanity started when Adam chose to believe he could be god.
Epistemological consistency invariably leads from there to the conclusion that humans must cease to exist.
Another example of socialists/communists attempting to rewrite history and science. Sadly, we are seeing science fiction masquerading as science.
Dead! Hold on there! Please check your sarcasm meter calibration. That’s Lazamataz after all!
I know it’s nothing new Laz, but it’s never been this out of control in my opinion and so wide scale simultaneously.
What concerns me the most is that we are allowing this to happen on our watch. We have the advantage of being able to study history, so we all know what happens if we don’t stand up. Yet we do nothing.
I yearn for freedom, I crave it desperately. I miss what our countries used to be.
I will do my part, but we need leaders to stand up.
No, he cited Star Trek. That means he’s serious.
It was written somewhat tongue-in-cheek, somewhat like the great satirical piece "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathon Swift, but it is intended to provoke discussion on the flawed nature of mankind and express my serious feelings about the seemingly hopeless nature of governments and humans.
I look forward to your opus.
So we're not friends no' mo'?
MJ is just another tool pushing the dumbed down twits toward Idiocracy. They’re getting closer.
Well-observed. Very well-observed. When man tries to be God, he always makes a mess of it --often a bloody, genocidal mess.
It’s not “rural vs urban” thinking. It’s instability vs stability thinking. And it’s not Agenda 21 thinking. That’s the globalist agenda which is causing dislocations and instability. What I’m suggesting is a return to self-sufficiency of nations and secured national borders.
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