A film made by Ember Regis warns that climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century.
Commissioned by University College London, the film highlights the findings of a major report on managing the health effects of global warming, launched jointly by UCL and The Lancet.
Lead author Professor Anthony Costello says that failure to act on climate change will result in an intergenerational injustice, with our children and grandchildren scorning our generation for ignoring the climate change threat — with similar moral outrage to how we today look back on those who brought in and did nothing to stop slavery.
Professor Costello says: “The big message of this report is that climate change is a health issue affecting billions of people, not just an environmental issue about polar bears and deforestation.” He adds: “The impacts will be felt not just in the UK, but all around the world — and not just in some distant future but in our lifetimes and those of our children.”
You can watch the film by following this link:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0905/09051401
