STEP TWO. Get informed...
Know your stuff and campaigning will be much easier – you’ll gain confidence and authority, and the opportunity to convince others who would never otherwise listen. If you know what the core problems are, you’ll be able to build on past work and bring your own solutions, rather than keep trying things that haven't worked in the past and duplicating effort.
Depending on your current level of knowledge, start with some reading on the global health impacts of climate change - pick a few that look interesting from our resources page. The IPCC Chapter on Health is another good place to start.
Then try to spend some time watching and thinking carefully about each of the following lectures from an excellent conference held a few years back at the Royal College of Physicians. Do you understand them? Can you relate the science to the solutions?
Then aim to spend one evening reading this report from the NHS Sustainable Development Unit. Especially if you're interested in NHS sustainability, make sure you’re familiar with this report – the more you progress on this stuff, the more you will read and re-read different sections. Keep an eye out for the Medsin reference in there, too!
Then, having learnt more about climate and health, move on to our proposed responses by becoming familiar with the following websites of key organisations and their arguments.
With these resources you will be able to cast away any thought of “I would like to be more involved, but I don’t know enough”. If you think that again, go back to these readings and lectures.
Depending on your current level of knowledge, start with some reading on the global health impacts of climate change - pick a few that look interesting from our resources page. The IPCC Chapter on Health is another good place to start.
Then try to spend some time watching and thinking carefully about each of the following lectures from an excellent conference held a few years back at the Royal College of Physicians. Do you understand them? Can you relate the science to the solutions?
Then aim to spend one evening reading this report from the NHS Sustainable Development Unit. Especially if you're interested in NHS sustainability, make sure you’re familiar with this report – the more you progress on this stuff, the more you will read and re-read different sections. Keep an eye out for the Medsin reference in there, too!
Then, having learnt more about climate and health, move on to our proposed responses by becoming familiar with the following websites of key organisations and their arguments.
With these resources you will be able to cast away any thought of “I would like to be more involved, but I don’t know enough”. If you think that again, go back to these readings and lectures.
