Planetary Health & the Role of Nursing: A Call to Action
Anne E. Kurth, Journal of Nursing Scholarship 2017 Article here.
100 Days to Save the Planet - We Must All Act NOW!
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/series/climate-countdown
The US will officially exit the Paris accord one day after the 2020 US election and architects of that deal say the stakes could not be higher
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A firefighter battle the Quail Fire near Winters, California on 6 June 2020.
Photograph: Noah Berger/APIt was a balmy June day in 2017 when Donald Trump took to the lectern in the White House Rose Garden to announce the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, the only comprehensive global pact to tackle the spiraling crisis.
Todd Stern, who was the US’s chief negotiator when the deal was sealed in Paris in 2015, forced himself to watch the speech.
“I found it sickening, it was mendacious from start to finish,” said Stern. “I was furious … because here we have this really important thing and here’s this joker who doesn’t understand anything he’s talking about. It was a fraud.”
The terms of the accord mean no country can leave before November this year, so due to a quirk of timing, the US will officially exit the Paris deal on 4 November – 100 days from now and just one day after the 2020 presidential election.
The completion of Stern’s misery, and possibly any realistic hopes of averting disastrous climate change, rests heavily upon the outcome of the election, which will pit Trump against former vice-president Joe Biden, who has vowed to rejoin the climate agreement.
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About this content Oliver Milman in New York
@olliemilman
Mon 27 Jul 2020 03.00 EDT
Last modified on Mon 27 Jul 2020 12.41 E
A firefighter battle the Quail Fire near Winters, California on 6 June 2020.
Photograph: Noah Berger/APIt was a balmy June day in 2017 when Donald Trump took to the lectern in the White House Rose Garden to announce the US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement, the only comprehensive global pact to tackle the spiraling crisis.
Todd Stern, who was the US’s chief negotiator when the deal was sealed in Paris in 2015, forced himself to watch the speech.
“I found it sickening, it was mendacious from start to finish,” said Stern. “I was furious … because here we have this really important thing and here’s this joker who doesn’t understand anything he’s talking about. It was a fraud.”
The terms of the accord mean no country can leave before November this year, so due to a quirk of timing, the US will officially exit the Paris deal on 4 November – 100 days from now and just one day after the 2020 presidential election.
The completion of Stern’s misery, and possibly any realistic hopes of averting disastrous climate change, rests heavily upon the outcome of the election, which will pit Trump against former vice-president Joe Biden, who has vowed to rejoin the climate agreement.
Dealing with Climate Change - Suggestions:
Dr. Medani Bhandari -
Professor Akamai University, Hilo, Hawaii &Sumy State University, Ukraine https://www.facebook.com/medani.bhandari.7/videos/pcb.10223036984729841/10223036762004273/?type=3&theater Global Peace Meditation
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URGENTLY CALLING
FIVE MILLION MEDITATORS From Around the Globe! Five Million of You “Destiny Makers” Are Urgently Needed. Let's Create A Continuous TSUNAMI WAVE OF LIGHT that will stabilize the global situation, ensure positive outcomes for the rest of 2020, and catapult humanity onto the Most Amazing New Earth Timeline We Can Imagine! CHECK THE TIME OF THE MEDITATION FOR YOUR TIME ZONE HEREINSTRUCTIONS FOR MEDITATION1. Use your own technique to bring you to a relaxed state of consciousness. 2. State your intent to use this meditation as a tool to co-create the trigger that will start the Age of Aquarius. 3. Invoke the Violet Flame from its primary source to place a circle of protection around you during and after the meditation. Ask it to transmute anything that does not serve the Light. 4. Visualize a pillar of brilliant white Light emanating from the Cosmic Central Sun, then being distributed to Central Suns of all galaxies in this universe. Then visualize this light entering through the Galactic Central Sun, then going through our Galaxy, then entering our Solar System and going through all beings of Light inside our Solar System and then through all beings on planet Earth and also through your body to the center of the Earth. 5. Visualize this Light transmuting all remaining darkness on Earth, healing all inequalities, erasing all poverty and bringing abundance to all humanity. Visualize soft pink Light of the Goddess embracing all beings on planet Earth and healing their emotional bodies. Visualize a new grand cosmic cycle of the Age of Aquarius beginning, bringing pure Light, Love and Happiness to all beings on Earth. Suggested time for our meditation is 20 minutes. |
Let's Take a New Shot Before the Sun Sets!
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Planetary Health Explained
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Planetary Health: The Next Frontier in Nursing Education
Teddie Potter August 15, 2019
Abstract:
Much has been said about the severe health impacts of climate change for individuals and societies. The nursing profession has done significant work educating practicing nurses about climate change (Health Care Without Harm, 2018; Leffers, Smith, Huffling, McDermott-Levy, & Sattler, 2016), promoting policy changes (Leffers & Butterfield, 2018), and leading effective actions and practice changes (Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, 2019). However, climate change is only one symptom of an emerging and potentially catastrophic multisystem failure. Failing to take a systems approach and addressing only one symptom at a time can lead to unintended consequences, ineffective use of resources, and activist burnout. The severity and urgency of global environmental issues requires a paradigm shift from understanding health solely in human terms, to a deep awareness that human health and environmental health are inseparable. This article discusses the emerging interdisciplinary field of planetary health and the potential impact of nursing leadership. Modifications to nursing education are required so that future nurses are ready to lead transformative planetary health initiatives.
Keywords: climate change; nursing education; planetary health; systems thinking.
© Copyright 2019 Creative Health Care Management.
Teddie Potter August 15, 2019
Abstract:
Much has been said about the severe health impacts of climate change for individuals and societies. The nursing profession has done significant work educating practicing nurses about climate change (Health Care Without Harm, 2018; Leffers, Smith, Huffling, McDermott-Levy, & Sattler, 2016), promoting policy changes (Leffers & Butterfield, 2018), and leading effective actions and practice changes (Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, 2019). However, climate change is only one symptom of an emerging and potentially catastrophic multisystem failure. Failing to take a systems approach and addressing only one symptom at a time can lead to unintended consequences, ineffective use of resources, and activist burnout. The severity and urgency of global environmental issues requires a paradigm shift from understanding health solely in human terms, to a deep awareness that human health and environmental health are inseparable. This article discusses the emerging interdisciplinary field of planetary health and the potential impact of nursing leadership. Modifications to nursing education are required so that future nurses are ready to lead transformative planetary health initiatives.
Keywords: climate change; nursing education; planetary health; systems thinking.
© Copyright 2019 Creative Health Care Management.
