Dr. Georges Benjamin Discusses the Climate Crisis and APHA's Center for Climate and Health (July 24th)
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Listen Now The news is grim. Our planet has just experienced its hottest June in recorded history and likely the hottest July. This year will likely join ten others since 2000 as the warmest ever recorded. Several studies just published in Nature and Nature Geoscience have concluded there has never been a period over the past 2,000 years when temperatures have changed as fast and extensive as in recent decades. To make matters worse, the climate crisis substantially explains the fact our planet is currently experiencing its 6th mass extinction – 4 of the previous 5 were also caused by high atmospheric CO2 concentrations, the worst of these extinguished 90% of all planetary life. Despite the increasingly dire evidence, the federal leaders continue to do nothing. The White House and the Republican Party not only refuse to admit reality but argue Americans have no fundamental right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life. Congressional House Democrats refuse to move any meaningful legislation - even if that means simply putting Republicans on record for opposing maintaining life on earth and the health care industry, in sum, is neither working to reduce its own carbon emissions nor lobbying for requisite federal policy reforms. Listeners may be aware this is my 8th climate crisis-related interview since last October.
Dr. Georges Benjamin Discusses the Climate Crisis and APHA's Center for Climate and Health (July 24th)
Dr. Georges Benjamin Discusses the Climate…
Dr. Georges Benjamin Discusses the Climate Crisis and APHA's Center for Climate and Health (July 24th)
Listen Now The news is grim. Our planet has just experienced its hottest June in recorded history and likely the hottest July. This year will likely join ten others since 2000 as the warmest ever recorded. Several studies just published in Nature and Nature Geoscience have concluded there has never been a period over the past 2,000 years when temperatures have changed as fast and extensive as in recent decades. To make matters worse, the climate crisis substantially explains the fact our planet is currently experiencing its 6th mass extinction – 4 of the previous 5 were also caused by high atmospheric CO2 concentrations, the worst of these extinguished 90% of all planetary life. Despite the increasingly dire evidence, the federal leaders continue to do nothing. The White House and the Republican Party not only refuse to admit reality but argue Americans have no fundamental right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life. Congressional House Democrats refuse to move any meaningful legislation - even if that means simply putting Republicans on record for opposing maintaining life on earth and the health care industry, in sum, is neither working to reduce its own carbon emissions nor lobbying for requisite federal policy reforms. Listeners may be aware this is my 8th climate crisis-related interview since last October.