EUROPE: Australia’s top doctors and scientists are urging the Government to show leadership on climate change after a new report warned human health would feel the most immediate impacts of global warming.
The report from the Australian Academy of Science was endorsed by the Australian Medical Association and highlighted unemployment, population displacement and social inequality as potential impacts to society.
“Whether it be more heatwaves, tropical diseases moving to new areas or lost jobs in farming, fishing and tourism — these are all directly linked to costs for health and mental health,” Academy Fellow Professor Bruce Armstrong said.
“The inequalities that already exist in society are likely to widen, as more advantaged groups are able to adapt better to this different world.”
AMA president Brian Owler said doctors were already seeing the effects of climate change.
“The heatwaves that we’ve experienced, particularly in some of the more southern climates such as Melbourne … we have already seen deaths occurring in our public hospitals from people, particularly those who are vulnerable in our community,” Mr Owler said.
“[That’s] the elderly, the young, those that are sick, those that don’t speak English as their first language.”
The report recommended the creation of a National Food and Water Commission and a National Centre for Disease Control.
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