November 29, 2022 - We know about the impact of climate change on our environment, but what about on fertility and pregnancy? Climate change, fertility and pregnancy are not typically discussed together, however, obstetrician ...
Opinion Pieces
InSight+: As with tobacco, we must ban fossil fuel advertising
September 26, 2022 - Dr Richard Yin and Dr Carolyn Orr write a powerful call to action for the health sector to ban fossil fuel advertising and promotion in InSight+. As we did with ...
Ditch fracking to protect our health
September 25, 2022 - “It is time we stopped being at the mercy of big business” Dr. Brooke Ah Shay NT News 25 September 2022 THIS week’s news of Origin Energy’s divestment from the ...
Independent Education: responding to students’ climate change concerns
September 21, 2022 - The toll of climate change on school-aged children and young people’s mental health is huge, but often overlooked. And how should schools deal with them? To explore this important issue ...
MJAInsight: Climate change and sustainability: leadership, action from doctors
August 15, 2022 - When we think of carbon emissions, we don’t often think of healthcare’s substantial contribution. Yet, in Australia alone, this sector is responsible for 7% of our national carbon emissions. Australia’s ...
Dr Richard Yin: People ask about the cost of action. We should also be asking, what is the cost of inaction of climate change.
March 7, 2022 - The science is very clear that climate change is being caused by fossil fuel combustion. It is also very clear that this will have enormous health impacts both locally and globally.
Dr Richard Yin: Heat waves are a real threat, we must cut emissions this decade
January 25, 2022 - Another day of 40 degrees. What does this mean for health. We know that over the last ten years that heat has caused the death of about 3000 Australians. But ...
The Hill: Climate change emergency cannot be solved by disintegrating democracies
January 5, 2022 - Our western democracies can no longer deliver consensus and action on issues that threaten humanity such as climate change, writes Dr David Shearman. Governments are unwilling to accept that many ...
MJAInsight+: COP26 opportunities missed for Australian health care
January 5, 2022 - AT the UN climate change conference (COP26) in Glasgow, over 50 countries participated in the COP26 Health Programme and committed to strengthen the climate resilience and sustainability of their health systems. Yet while health ...
DEA in the news
November 24, 2021 - DEA in the news: Sep to Nov 2021 Impact of Climate Change: Scientists warn of its effect on public health CGTN, 24 Nov. Quotes Dr Cybele Dey Richard Yin: For health’s sake, we ...
MJA Insight+: COVID-19 is urgent, climate is important
October 29, 2021 - Drs Kate Charlesworth and Omar Khorshid state scientific reports are becoming increasingly blunt: decarbonise urgently or face catastrophic climate breakdown. The health sector has a lot of work to do. ...
Helping young people address anxiety caused by climate change
October 18, 2021 - Anticipated threats to, and actual losses, of our natural world from the impacts of climate change are being increasingly recognised as having significant psychological impact, especially in young people, writes ...
U.S.-China talk could torpedo climate conference
September 30, 2021 - If the focus favours an uncertain future threat of U.S.-China conflict when world leaders meet in six weeks to address the real danger of climate emergency at COP26, the summit will likely ...
The climate apocalypse: Can a collapse of global civilisation be avoided?
September 7, 2021 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said “a target of net zero 2050 emissions to address the climate emergency is an illusion, net zero must be in the next decade. There must ...
Young People’s Climate Anxiety is Valid; Not Caused By So-Called “Alarmist” Activism
September 2, 2021 - – Recent efforts by two Liberal MPs to link mental health problems in young people to “alarmist” climate activism in an effort to secure extra funding for the school chaplaincy ...
Australia needs help from the US to defuse the ‘gas bomb’
August 19, 2021 - “A recent UN report states that reducing human-caused methane emissions is a most cost-effective strategy to rapidly reduce the rate of global warming and limit temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius. ...
Hurt the Land, Hurt the People
August 19, 2021 - “In 1975 Dr Bob Brown, motivated by a passion to fight for the environment, stood as a candidate for the United Tasmania Group. “This is widely acknowledged to have been ...
The EU tariff plan is good news for Australia’s place in the World
July 29, 2021 - “The steady deterioration in Australia’s environment and the ineffective revision of the EPBC Act suggests that we need help from other developed nations to solve our problem. This help may ...
How the US could help Australia develop climate action
July 29, 2021 - “There comes a time when the citizens of one country need help from another country to solve crucial problems. In the case of Australia, help is not for poverty, chaos ...
The Coalition is sinking in the uncharted waters of the Murray Darling
July 19, 2021 - Deals between the Liberal and National parties could further imperil water policy and spell a dark future for the climate and sustainability efforts, writes Dr David Shearman. Continue reading…