Doctors Fight Coal Like Tobacco, Widening Climate Debate - Bloomberg Business

Doctors Fight Coal Like Tobacco, Widening Climate Debate - Bloomberg Business: "Doctors are joining the fight against pollution from coal power, adding a significant new dimension to the effort to rein in global warming.
Calling for “a rapid phaseout of coal from the global energy mix,” a panel of 46 health professionals and climate scientists identified the world’s rising temperature as one of the biggest threats to humans in the coming decades.
“The health community has responded to many grave threats in the past. It took on entrenched interests such as the tobacco industry and led on the fight against HIV/AIDS,” said Peng Gong, co-chair of the group who directs the Earth science systems center at Tsinghua University in Beijing. “Now is the time for us to lead the way in responding to another great threat.”"



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