200+ Groups Representing 40 Million Health Workers Call for Health, Climate Reform – The Energy Mix
“We have witnessed first-hand how
fragile communities can be when their health, food security, and freedom
to work are interrupted by a common threat,” the signatories write,
outlining the cruel lessons of the pandemic. “The layers of this
ongoing tragedy are many, and magnified by inequality and
underinvestment in public health systems. We have witnessed death,
disease, and mental distress at levels not seen for decades.”
fragile communities can be when their health, food security, and freedom
to work are interrupted by a common threat,” the signatories write,
outlining the cruel lessons of the pandemic. “The layers of this
ongoing tragedy are many, and magnified by inequality and
underinvestment in public health systems. We have witnessed death,
disease, and mental distress at levels not seen for decades.”
Connecting the dots between such
tragic events and the still-dominant global energy system, the letter’s
signatories “also want reforms to fossil fuel subsidies, with public
support shifted toward renewable energy, which they say would make for
cleaner air, cut greenhouse gas emissions, and help to spur economic
growth of nearly US$100 trillion in the next three decades,” the
Guardian writes.