Pirate's Cove

The climate cultists certainly wouldn’t use what they believe is a climate emergency to implement all those same controls and more as during the COVID emergency, right? Lockdowns, movement restrictions, closing certain businesses, closing churches, forcing people to do things they otherwise wouldn’t do, etc

Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time – bigger than Covid

The latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is a grim, yet unsurprising, reminder of the catastrophic effect global heating is having on our planet. The message from leading climate scientists is clear: action is needed now. Not tomorrow, not next year, not by the end of the decade.

If memory serves, the IPCC says this every year. And then they have tens of thousands take fossil fueled travel, and many take private jets, to the IPCC conference in November each year.

Even drastic carbon reduction today that limits temperature increases to the 1.5C agreed in Paris will alter the world we live in for ever. The IPCC concludes that every fraction of a degree more will edge us towards tipping points that will leave deep scars on our planet.

“Scars.” The world has been warmer several times during the Holocene. And much hotter for quite a bit of the history of the Earth

While much has been said about the damage to weather patterns, crop yields and coral reefs, less well understood is the effect a hotter world has on our health. The reality is that the climate crisis is the biggest health crisis of our time, bigger even than Covid-19.

Heat-related deaths are expected to treble by 2050. Currently 7 million people die prematurely each year from air pollution, more than the death toll during the entire pandemic.

What if they don’t triple? Who is held responsible for this scaremongering? Further, air pollution is not ‘climate change’. It is not from greenhouse gases. The cult is distracting from dealing with real environmental issues.

There has been a rise in chronic diseases linked to air pollution, and evidence suggests it is driving up cancer rates, too. Lung cancer and respiratory-related deaths linked to air pollution are up 160% over the past 30 years and it causes genetic mutations in some lung cancer-linked genes.

Again, not climate. I wish I could find that article I read last week about the cult distracting from real environmental issues.

The toll on loved ones, public health and the economy is large and rising. It has been estimated that poor health costs the global economy 15% of global GDP. It is not only oil companies, carmakers and airlines at fault. Healthcare alone contributes 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, up to 8% in advanced economies.

ZOMG, healthcare is also bad for the climate emergency!

Like it or not, regulatory requirements are moving towards stopping companies selling products that are not sustainable. In Japan we have converted paper leaflets to e-leaflets for all our products, reducing costs, simplifying operations and saving 180 tonnes of waste and 30m tonnes of paper – the equivalent of 4,500 trees.

But companies cannot act alone. Together we must make public health more resilient, so that it can cope with change and become truly accessible. A forum such as the Sustainable Markets Initiative established by King Charles when he was Prince of Wales, convening stakeholders from across industries, is a good example of collaboration to take shared action at scale.

In other words, authoritarianism.