Climate Change Threatens Global Security, Warn Medical And Military Leaders
Climate Change Threatens Global Security, Warn Medical And Military Leaders
From the April 5 2011 Medical News Today item
Medical and military leaders have come together today to warn that climate change not only spells a global health catastrophe, but also threatens global stability and security.
“Climate change poses an immediate and grave threat, driving ill-health and increasing the risk of conflict, such that each feeds upon the other,” they write in an editorial published on bmj.com today [full text]. Their views come ahead of an open meeting on these issues to be held at the British Medical Association on 20 June 2011….
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