The most important task facing the health promotion sector is to help humanity change how we live in order to address “the converging crises of environmental degradation, climate change, resource depletion and social injustice”. This was one of several challenges that UK expert Professor Mark Dooris issued to the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) conference in Sydney [...]

Earth is rapidly approaching a tipping point, and our quality of life will suffer substantial degradation by 2050 if we continue on our current path, according to a global group of scientists. The Millennium Alliance for Humanity & the Biosphere recently issued a call to action to the world’s policymakers in this document, A Message to [...]

Crikey journalist Amber Jamieson recently reported that the National Health and Medical Research Council is examining whether anti-wind farm campaigner Sarah Laurie has breached ethical codes of research conduct. The NHMRC and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency were recently sent a dossier raising questions about the work of Laurie, CEO of the Waubra Foundation [...]

Alarm bells are ringing right around the world on climate change (see some of the most recent examples at the bottom of this post). But does the health and medical research sector have its thumbs jammed firmly in its ears? In the article below, Dr Elizabeth Haworth, Dr Brad Farrant and Fiona Armstrong lament a [...]

The politicians may not be talking much about climate change but fortunately many others are. Below are some recent publications to keep you up to date on the issue that will present one of our greatest health challenges.   The Critical Decade: Global action building on climate change: This report from the Climate Commission updates [...]

Clive Hamilton’s new book, Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate, investigates the use of geo-engineering technologies to mitigate climate change. A positive review in the latest Australian Book Review, says: It is a book that every politician, policy-maker, and citizen should read. The future of the planet and its inhabitants simply demands it. Rosalie Schultz, [...]

Politicians and policymakers seem to be operating in a “post-truth”, invented reality when it comes to responding to the threat of climate change, according to Fiona Armstrong, Convenor of the Climate and Health Alliance. The sort of magical thinking displayed by the Government in its response to the Productivity Commission’s recent inquiry into barriers to [...]

Yesterday I came across this inviting tweet from Ben Harris-Roxas:   Who could resist clicking the link! It was with some wonderment that I then read this article posted on the ABC website on Tuesday – Key climate change body loses government funding.