Radical climate action that healthcare systems need to take I Professor Hugh Montgomery FMedSci

Professor Hugh Montgomery FMedSci delivers a startling talk on how long we have left on the planet without radical climate action. Rephrasing the title of a 2008/9 Lancet report ‘Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century,” he says it should read “the biggest global threat to our survival in the next 30 years.” The talk charts humanity’s actions that have contributed to global temperatures rising and extreme weather events around the world in the last decade, and how we are failing to meet mitigation targets. “We have 87 months left to solve the problem,” he says. Watch the talk to see what radical action might mean and the role that the aggressive decarbonisation of healthcare systems can play.
This talk was part of the event "Talks from new Fellows 2022".
Professor Hugh Montgomery has been Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at UCL for 13 years, where he directs the Centre for Human Health and Performance. Professor Montgomery has developed transformational approaches to solving problems in human health and disease, and applied them in diverse ways- addressing regulation of human cardiac growth, skeletal muscle function/wasting, mitochondrial biology, hypoxic adaptation, bone remodelling and more.
Professor Montgomery has now published over 500 original scientific articles, given 15 ‘named’ lectures and over 340 invited talks, and fronted several documentaries with a profound gift to communicate his work to the public. His work has attracted 12 (inter)national awards. He has led national and international work on Health and Climate Change, co-leading two Lancet Commissions, and the £5m 5-year 42-country Lancet Countdown on the subject. He has provided representation at several ‘COP’ climate negotiations, has briefed multiple government departments, has published and lectured extensively on the subject, founded the schools' climate education programme ‘Project Genie’, and was appointed London Leader by the GLA Sustainability Commission.
Find out more about Professor Montgomery: acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellow...
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[@VaibhavNair-dj3si]

This was impactful. 🙏🏻

[@robertbaker5812]

Wow, that is a very well prepared and insightful talk. I'm somewhat alarmed that it was posted 10 months ago, and yet this is the first comment. Are we as a species resolutely looking the other way (to the detriment of the vast majority of other species)?