Climate Code Blue is a group of physician activists who believe that the climate crisis, like a “Code Blue” in the medical setting, requires urgent attention.
“Doctors and all health professionals have a responsibility, an obligation, to engage in all kinds of nonviolent social protests to address the climate emergency. That is the duty of the doctor.”
-Richard Horton, FRCP FRCPCH FMedSci
Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet
Changing the world is possible. We have the technology but not the political will.
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