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October 2021

Climate change is 'first and foremost' a health crisis, new report finds (yahoo.com)

Working construction under the merciless Arizona sun, Eleazar Castellanos knew the signs that heat exhaustion was settling in. On the days when the temperature would top 100 degrees, he and his coworkers would sweat profusely. Then came the cramps in their arms and legs, and the overwhelming urge to stop: take a break, get some water, cool down. But they couldn’t. Not if they wanted to get paid and return home to their families as breadwinners. “Many of the employers don’t understand, we...

Indigenous climate action leaders discuss racist colonialism with Dr. Gabor Maté

Raging wildfires in California and Turkey, hurricanes in the U.S. southeast, flooding in West Africa, droughts in Iraq and Syria and other environmental catastrophes across the globe traumatize hundreds of thousands of people. Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, founder and director of Indigenous Climate Action , has a different view of these events than what we typically see. She says the trauma of climate change spans generations and is interwoven with colonization in the form of modern extraction...

'No country will be spared' from effects of climate change, Biden administration reports detail [cnn.com]

By Nikki Carvajal, CNN Politics, October 21, 2021 A series of new reports from the Biden administration will issue a stark warning on Thursday: The effects of climate change will be wide-reaching and will pose problems for every government. "No country will be spared from the challenges directly related to climate change," a senior administration official told reporters in a call previewing the reports. The four reports -- which President Joe Biden called for in executive orders in January...

Over 80 Orgs. Call on Congress to Engage Whole Communities in Trauma Prevention and Healing by Introducing and Enacting the "Resilience for All Act of 2021"

The International Transformational Resilience Coalition (ITRC) today released a letter to Congress calling for the introduction and enactment of the "Resilience for All Act of 2021." The letter is endorsed by over 80 national, state, and local mental health and human services organizations from across the nation, and by over 240 individual professionals. The letter can be found on page three of this document. Overview : The "Resilience for All Act of 2021" will, for the first time, make the...

For Climate Solutions, Listen to Indigenous Women (yesmagazine.org)

I have always been afraid to talk about climate change. The barrage of doomsday numbers and the overwhelming magnitude of the problem leave me feeling small and powerless. But in the run up to COP26 , the most important climate change meeting in history, running away from the world’s toughest problem was no longer an option. So, as an audio journalist and podcast producer, I instead tried to imagine what a different approach to the discussion around climate change could sound like. So I...

Healthy Climate Prescription Letter

In advance of COP 26, health professionals from around the world are signing on to demand action to avert the climate crisis. Please see below for more details, and consider signing here: https://healthyclimateletter.net/sign-the-letter/. This action is for health professionals and allied health professionals, including public health, environmental health, etc. Thank you! Dear Colleagues, I am writing to ask you and your organization to join me in signing a letter:...

 
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