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"Health Impacts of Climate Change" slide pack (Mar 09)
by Frances Mortimer | Mon, 16/03/2009 - 11:27Free screenings of The Age of Stupid for the NHS
by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 03/07/2009 - 16:24
From 7 July, staff and inpatients across the whole NHS will be able to see the film the Age of Stupid for free. The Campaign for Greener Healthcare has teamed up with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit and the Climate and Health Council to arrange a blanket licence fee for the film, which stars actor Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?
Emergency Planning
How can we prepare for climate emergencies and prevent emergency responses from damaging the environment
We increasingly need to plan for emergencies relating to climate change. Hopefully plans are already in place to deal with floods etc. But should we modify these in relation to climate change - e.g. to deal with more frequent or longer lasting flooding. Do we need to link up various plans to deal with multiple climate change emergencies - e.g. displaced people causing local increase in population in which an atypical ('tropical')epidemic develops.
Do current emergency plans have negative impacts on the environment, eg. creating huge carbon emissions, or anti-terrorist activity having negative effects on the public transport network. Could we even extend this to the economic emergency? Does the government's response to protect the motor industry (supposedly a green policy) - the 'car scrappage scheme' actually increase emissions caused by production?
