Monday, August 31, 2020 11am to 12pm
About this Event
In California’s clinics and hospitals, we see the damage climate change is doing. Wildfire season is begining ealier, due to abnormally hot and dry conditions. With their developing lungs, children are particularly vulnerable to the terrible smoke that has become a routine yearly occurrence. We’ve seen displaced families with children suffering from toxic stress that places them at a higher lifetime risk for chronic illness.
The medical community has written and pleaded with public officials to take this crisis seriously. But greenhouse gas emissions, sanctioned by our own government, continue at an alarming pace.
These past months we have watched as the world acted swiftly and boldly in response to COVID-19, utilizing science and public health principles that ultimately flattened the curve. But our federal government's approach has resulted in an explosion of cases and the highest number of COVID-19 deaths worldwide.
The pandemic was not caused by our government, but inaction has proved deadly. In the case of climate change, the government is literally promoting the cause of rapid and destabilizing warming through continued reliance on fossil fuels. And unlike this microscopic virus, there is an existing cure to the climate crisis: Decarbonize now.
Dr Lisa Patel is a clinical assistant professor at Stanford. Sher eceived her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford, a Master’s in Environmental Sciences from the Yale, and her medical degree from Johns Hopkins. She completed her residency in pediatrics at UCSF. She was a Presidential Management Fellow for the Environmental Protection Agency, coordinating the US Government’s efforts on clean air and safe drinking water projects in South Asia in collaboration with the WHO. She is Climate Change and Health Task Force Co-Chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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