Inspiring perspectives: Adressing Climate change and deteriorating health

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In this episode we have two very dedicated people from the medical profession in the studio. The medical doctor and researcher Staffan Mårild and Medical Doctor student Ellinor Berg. Both are active members of the Swedish organization "Doctors for the environment" or Läkare för Miljön in Sweden, an organization founded in 1991 working to spread awareness about environmental and health related issues, and more importantly how they are interlinked!   

We talk about how deteriorating health and the escalating climate crisis are closely related and why we need to adress them together and understand the big picture to find sustainable solutions.  The focus is a comprehensive report by the Lancet Commission that was published in the Scientific Journal The Lancet in  January and an article Staffan Mårild and Ellinor Berg wrote in Sweden´s biggest newspaper Dagens Nyheter in May. covering the main points in the report and drawing out ideas to move forward. 

In part 2 of my conversation with Staffan Mårild and Ellinor Berg here on the Evolution Show, we will cover the carbon emissions from the health sector and what I call the fossil health dilemma, the oil dependance in this huge and growing sector and ideas on how we can make a fossil free transition to the future while still maintaining high health levels and public health service.  

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Extra thanks to Hannes Agrenius for helpinng out with this episode! 

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Producer and host: Johan Landgren  

Studio technician: Gustav Andersson  

Music for animation: Alexander Sparf - roding.bandcamp.com