This doctor connects climate change with health
Patients trust their doctors with the intimate details of their lives, including struggles with housing, racism, or the immigration system. Gaurab Basu considers this a privilege. All healthcare providers are storytellers, and they can use these anecdotes to foster systemic change. The Center for Health Equity strives to equip them with the skills they need to advocate for better policies.
What galvanized Basu was the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which chronicled the threats to everything he cares about as a doctor - dignity, equity, justice, health. He jumped into creating new curricula for medical professionals incorporating climate and equity; writing op-eds about planetary and human well-being; testifying about how to bring health into decisions about building or transportation policy; and generally mobilizing others to make these connections. “I get excited about a world in which we do this right,” he says.
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Hello! This is one of a few profiles of people who are doing interesting work in climate and the environment. Check out the videos here: kzread.info/head/PL8CdHFjBJ1d8SnbHfpx6yUEV9_Pb0bDvV Or, you can see the whole dang list here: grist.org/grist-50/2021/
@skybot9998
2 жыл бұрын
The ducks are quacking!!!
He doesn't really explain how climate change translates directly into health problems for his patients.
@Grist
3 жыл бұрын
That's a fair question -- one of our writers covered a report that gets into some of those specific links (e.g. a hotter climate means increased transmission of deadly diseases): grist.org/climate/how-climate-change-could-undo-50-years-of-public-health-gains/ Dr. Basu also wrote an op-ed where he talks about some more of the health-climate specifics: grist.org/fix/want-to-prevent-the-next-pandemic-this-doctor-is-prescribing-climate-action/
@OMG-sh9st
2 жыл бұрын
Wildfires are a natural part of many environments. They are nature's way of clearing out the dead litter on forest floors. This allows important nutrients to return to the soil, enabling a new healthy beginning for plants and animals. Fires also play an important role in the reproduction of some plants. So humans are actually in the way of nature taking its course right? We can't build around a forest and blame climate change for our earth evolving and destroying structure that we built. We will be long gone before this earth dies out.
Trust me he is not the first.