George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, Fairfax, VA, USA.
Stanford Children's Health.
J Commun Healthc. 2024 Jul;17(2):194-196. doi: 10.1080/17538068.2024.2357949. Epub 2024 Jun 3.
In this commentary, we argue that health professionals can play a pivotal role in accelerating the adoption of public policies that will help communities, nations, and the world end fossil fuel pollution and rise to the challenges of climate change. We briefly describe our previously published research showing that communicating about fossil fuel pollution and the health relevance of climate change has many benefits in building public support for climate action. Most importantly, we make the case that because health professionals, especially medical doctors and other clinicians, are highly trusted, we collectively have a unique opportunity to bring people together across the political continuum to have constructive dialogues about the intertwined problems of fossil fuel pollution and climate change and what to do about them - even in the current hyper-partisan environment.
在这篇评论中，我们认为卫生专业人员可以在加速采用有助于社区、国家和世界消除化石燃料污染并应对气候变化挑战的公共政策方面发挥关键作用。我们简要描述了我们之前发表的研究，表明就化石燃料污染和气候变化的健康相关性进行沟通在为气候行动争取公众支持方面具有诸多益处。最重要的是，我们认为，由于卫生专业人员，尤其是医生和其他临床医生，享有高度信任，因此我们作为一个整体拥有独特的机会，可以将跨越政治谱系的人们聚集在一起，就化石燃料污染和气候变化这两个相互交织的问题及其应对措施进行建设性对话——即使在当前这种高度党派化的环境中也是如此。
