{"id":1964,"date":"2009-11-30T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2009-11-30T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T15:22:46","slug":"doctors-urged-to-advise-patients-on-reducing-their-carbon-butt-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/30\/doctors-urged-to-advise-patients-on-reducing-their-carbon-butt-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors urged to advise patients on reducing their carbon butt-print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/environment\/climatechange\/6683770\/GPs-should-offer-climate-change-advice-to-patients.html\" target=\"_blank\">Climate and Health Council<\/a> in Britain is urging GPs to provide their patients with information on how to reduce their carbon output:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Council has been recently formed to study the health benefits of tackling climate change and promotes a range of ideas from reducing your carbon footprint by driving less and walking more to eating local, less processed food.<\/p>\n<p>It wants to raise &#8216;health&#8217; on the agenda of December&#8217;s UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>They believe that offering patients advice on how to lower their carbon footprint can be just as easy and achievable as helping them to stop smoking or eat a healthier diet.<\/p>\n<p>Other proposals include for all developed nations to pay an extra five dollars a barrel on oil and a tax on airline tickets. This would go into a special fund to develop low-carbon alternatives to existing technologies, they say. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, after waiting for however many weeks to get that precious 2.5 minutes of actual patient-doctor interaction, two minutes will now be composed (in a Freudian slip, I originally mistyped that as &#8220;composted&#8221;) of Climate-Puritan hectoring. That&#8217;ll do <em>wonders<\/em> for both the environment and for doctor\/patient relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Climate and Health Council in Britain is urging GPs to provide their patients with information on how to reduce their carbon output: The Council has been recently formed to study the health benefits of tackling climate change and promotes a range of ideas from reducing your carbon footprint by driving less and walking more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,65,66],"tags":[245,156,240,39,243],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-bureaucracy","category-environment","category-health-science","tag-climatechange","tag-fail","tag-globalwarming","tag-junkscience","tag-medicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-vG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1965,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1964\/revisions\/1965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}