What’s your carbon reduction strategy?

In this week's British Medical Journal

by Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ

Back in 2006 I wrote an Editor’s Choice called "What did you do about climate change Mum?" read here. It suggested that doctors might start measuring their carbon footprint. The most interesting thing about this short piece was the response it received on bmj.com read here. What was this stuff doing in a medical journal? What was I doing uncritically accepting the propaganda of the global warming lobby?

Things have changed since then. WHO’s director general Margaret Chan has called climate change the biggest public health challenge of the 21st century. And last week the UN and Red Cross warned that a humanitarian crisis caused by droughts, floods, storms, and heatwaves could overwhelm relief agencies read here. Most chilling for me was a comment at a meeting at the Royal College of Physicians last year. When asked what people should do about climate change, Tom Burke of Rio Tinto said "Don’t be under 40."

To look at the editorial click here