SUMMARY:
Instead of
wasting money
"fighting"
an imaginary
climate change
bogeyman coming
in 50 to 100 years,
the UK's medical
establishment should
have concentrated
on being prepared
for a real enemy,
such as a viral
epidemic.
On January 25, 2020,
when COVID-19
was spreading around
the world, the British
National Health Service
( NHS )
Chief was announcing plans
to: “step up action to tackle
the climate health emergency”:
DETAILS:
Public Health England
( PHE )
was set up in 2013 to replace
the Health Protection Agency
( HPA ).
HPA had published
the 242 page report:
"Health Effects
of Climate Change
in the UK 2012"
Full of the scary,
but fictional,
stories about
extreme weather
and new diseases.
Based on
a ridiculous
prediction of
+5 degrees C.
global warming
by 2080.
The report
did admit
more people
die from cold,
than heat,
so a warmer
climate would
save lives.
But contradicted itself
by claiming a coming
climate emergency
is also health emergency.
Public Health
England ( PHE )
is a vast
bureaucracy
that exists for
an epidemic
like COVID-19.
It has more than
200 executives
on six-figure
salaries.
But when
a real public
health threat
came along,
they proved
nearly useless.
The National
Health Service
has been obsessed
with climate change
for over a decade,
In 2009,
it endorsed
a Lancet report,
“Managing the
health effects
of climate change”,
about alleged
climate change
food shortages,
heat waves,
and an
increased threat
of tropical diseases,
such as malaria.
All based on
questionable
assumptions,
and omissions
of inconvenient
facts.
Both the NHS and PHE
jointly fund something
called the Sustainable
Development Unit.
In 2009,
it announced a
Carbon Reduction
Strategy ( CRS )
for the NHS:
An ambition
for the NHS
to help drive
change towards
a low carbon
society.
The CRS strategy
has since been updated
into a 2014-2020 Plan.
The NHS currently
accounts for around
5% of total UK
carbon emissions,
but intends to achieve
‘net-zero’ as soon
as possible.
The doctors’
trade union,
the BMA,
claims that
“climate change poses
significant threats
to public health”,
and uses its lobbying
power to pressure
the NHS into
carbon reductions.