Doctors Showed Support Kids—and Call Out Evildoers
Other workers also took time off to show up and support the young adults. Helena Clements, a pediatrician, came to highlight the grave health crisis climate change poses to kids. Indeed, climate change is already making people sick and causing death now. A recent report from the Lancet, a premier medical journal, underscored just how bad things are for the present, let alone the risk future generations will face.
“This was the first year where I can say confidently that I and my patients very clearly experienced the impacts of climate change,” Jeremy Hess, co-author of the U.S. policy brief, emergency medicine physician, and director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, told Earther at the time the report came out.
“There’s no point in me looking after the health of children if we don’t look after the planet,” Clements said of why she made the six-plus hour trip to Glasgow from Nottingham. “We’re here as Doctors for XR raising the role of financiers in funding climate change.”
