Fossil fuels are the new tobacco. The health sector must take action - Healthy Debate

The health sector would never have condoned support for the tobacco industry, so why would it in the case of the fossil fuel industry?

Opinion Dec 4, 2022 by Doctors for Planetary Health – West Coast Fossil fuels are the new tobacco. The health sector must take action 1 Comment Share on: The news out of COP27 – the UN’s annual conference on climate change – was grim. “We are in the fight of our lives. And we are losing,” United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in his opening remarks . “Greenhouse gas emissions keep growing. Global temperatures keep rising,” he continued. “And our planet is fast approaching tipping points that will make climate chaos irreversible. We are on a highway to climate hell with our foo

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