Politico: The health sector is responsible for 8.5 percent of U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane and ozone — an outsized impact compared to the rest of the world. (Globally, health care systems contribute roughly 4.6 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.) Without huge new efforts, the U.S. will have trouble reaching its ambitious emissions reduction goals. … The drive to reimagine anesthesia is part of a broader if belated effort to decarbonize U.S. health care, from the operating room to the cafeteria to the gardens and grounds. It’s a push spurred on by both medical professionals and Washington policymakers, who feel increased pressure to act amid the dangers of climate change and who acknowledge health care has been slow to engage on sustainability. …
The Veterans Administration and the Indian Health Service, which deliver health care to millions of people across the country, have been directed to reduce emissions and energy use as part of the Biden White House’s overall government climate policy.
For the rest of the health care system, HHS unveiled a Climate Pledge on Earth Day 2022 to spur more action. … About 116 health organizations, representing 872 hospitals as well as other health care sectors, have signed on. Along with the federal health systems, that represents about 15 percent of U.S. hospitals, HHS officials said.
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‘Your Doctor will treat the climate first — & you will be happy’
By: Marc Morano – Climate DepotJune 19, 2023 7:53 AM
As USA faces cancer drug shortage… Cancer Society in 2020 fretted over ‘carbon footprint of cancer care’ –
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Politco June 2023: Hospitals Turning into ‘Climate Change Fighting Machines’ – ‘More Earth-friendly drugs’ – Reducing ‘anesthetic gas’https://t.co/xwz1EYSLDS https://t.co/DLPBjXdJYJ pic.twitter.com/hUAzDWRx6g
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) June 19, 2023
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/06/06/hospital-climate-change-waste-00098612
By JOANNE KENEN
Inside the greening of American health care.
Excerpts: Sometimes they’ll use more Earth-friendly drugs when appropriate. They’ve already stopped using another common anesthetic gas, called desflurane, which remains in the atmosphere for a decade or more, according to Shira Abeles, an infectious disease physician at UCSD, who recently became its medical director of sustainability.
She’s got plenty of science backing these shifts. The American Society of Anesthesiologists has identified alternatives that are better for the planet, just as safe for patients — and often cheaper.
“One hour of that volatile agent (desflurane) is equivalent to driving a car 250 miles, a gasoline car, I should say. And there’s very little we do in one hour,” said Joanne Donnelly, who, as director of the nurse anesthesia program at the University of Minnesota, has trained personnel in sustainable practices in hospitals across Minnesota and Wisconsin.
“Extrapolate that across an urban area, a region, a nation,” she said. “It’s an incredible impact.”
The drive to reimagine anesthesia is part of a broader if belated effort to decarbonize U.S. health care, from the operating room to the cafeteria to the gardens and grounds. It’s a push spurred on by both medical professionals and Washington policymakers, who feel increased pressure to act amid the dangers of climate change and who acknowledge health care has been slow to engage on sustainability.
The health sector is responsible for 8.5 percent of U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, methane and ozone — an outsized impact compared to the rest of the world. (Globally, health care systems contribute roughly 4.6 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions.) Without huge new efforts, the U.S. will have trouble reaching its ambitious emissions reduction goals.
Within American health care, hospitals are the biggest source of emissions, not to mention generators of enormous amounts of nonrecyclable trash from all the single-use, disposable devices and supplies that head swiftly into landfills and incinerators.
Not every hospital is on board with transformation. Change can be expensive, and it’s always hard to overcome the inertia of the status quo. But health leaders see progress, and the Biden administration is doing its own part to push hospitals to overhaul their practices — with some success. The question is, will it be enough?
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Hospitals in Vermont and Boston are growing vegetables in rooftop gardens; Seattle Children’s Hospital is planting conifers in greenery-starved poor neighborhoods. In drought-prone Los Angeles, a UCLA plastic surgeon suggested timers for operating room sinks; everyone still scrubs in, of course, but without wasting water.
Some hospitals offer more plant-based meal options; New York Mayor Eric Adams, who follows a mostly vegan diet, saw to that in the city’s 11 public hospitals.
Meanwhile, recycling medical waste is neither easy nor inexpensive; it’s more complicated than tossing a tuna can or yesterday’s newspaper into a blue bin. But that’s slowly changing as more health systems turn to FDA-certified companies that can recycle, sanitize or reprocess such waste.
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It’s become harder to ignore how extreme climate events and pollution endanger human health, with poor people, minority groups and elderly people particularly vulnerable. Extreme weather exacerbates heart, lung and kidney disease; it makes asthma worse. Mental health deteriorates. Heat waves kill people — directly, or by aggravating chronic conditions. Power outages in patient homes mean no refrigeration for insulin or electricity to keep oxygen tanks flowing.
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“What excites me is that health professionals are starting to connect the reason why they’re there in the first place, which is to take care of patients, with the health impacts that are happening because of climate [which] their health systems are contributing to,” said Shanda Demorest, a nurse who is associate director for climate engagement and education at Health Care Without Harm, which along with its Practice Greenhealth arm, is a major force in pushing for new health and climate work.
The Veterans Administration and the Indian Health Service, which deliver health care to millions of people across the country, have been directed to reduce emissions and energy use as part of the Biden White House’s overall government climate policy.
For the rest of the health care system, HHS unveiled a Climate Pledge on Earth Day 2022 to spur more action. … About 116 health organizations, representing 872 hospitals as well as other health care sectors, have signed on. Along with the federal health systems, that represents about 15 percent of U.S. hospitals, HHS officials said.
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The climate pledge is voluntary, but hospital sustainability experts insist it’s not the usual feel-good exercise. Signatories commit to specific actions and must publicly report progress toward cutting emissions by 50 percent by 2030 and cutting net emissions by 100 percent by 2050.
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If hospital leaders start to perceive climate action as unavoidable — either because they anticipate it will be mandated or because they will face mounting pressure from within, particularly from younger doctors and nurses — they may start sooner rather than later.
HHS is aware that not all health systems are committed, and that even those that are may need help. McCannon said HHS is rolling out technical assistance and some grants.
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But activists and sustainability teams want more. More tools. More metrics. More financial help.
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Some advocates would like to see the federal government impose tough regulations and requirements to force change. Others suggest building incentives into Medicare payments to hospitals, which would give a government-imprimatur on health care greening without creating a new mandate. Climate benchmarks could be included in HHS’ “conditions for participation,” the practices that health providers must follow to be eligible for Medicare or Medicaid payments.
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Related:
Anesthesia the next target in climate battle: Docs suggest reducing anesthesia: Would you suffer to combat climate change?
NY Post: Dr. Mohamed Fayed, a senior anesthetist at Detroit’s Henry Ford Health, made the suggestion during the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ annual conference last Friday in Orlando, Florida. “Global warming is affecting our daily life more and more, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions has become crucial,” he said. Dr. Fayed added, “No matter how small each effect is, it will add up. As anesthesiologists, we can contribute significantly to this cause by making little changes in our daily practice — such as lowering the flow of anesthetic gas — without affecting patient care.”
Study press release:“Anesthesiologists can play a role in reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming by decreasing the amount of anesthetic gas provided during procedures without compromising patient care, suggests new research being presented at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ ADVANCE 2023, the Anesthesiology Business Event.” [Climate Depot Note: The American Society of Anesthesiologists’ website appears to have pulled the article. but it is available here. & here.]
Research notes that inhaled anesthesia accounts for up to 0.1% of the world’s carbon emissions, which are regarded as the primary driver of global climate change. An hour of surgery using an inhaled anesthetic is equivalent to driving as many as 470 miles, according to a 2010 study.
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Flashback 2020 Study in American Cancer Society Journal in 2020 Fretted over ‘carbon footprint of cancer care’ – ACS Journal: “Climate change and cancer” – Excerpt: “To date, no studies have estimated the carbon footprint of cancer care…The energy expenditure associated with operating cancer treatment facilities and medical devices, as well as the manufacturing, packaging, and shipment of devices and pharmaceuticals, contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions in cancer care…Some cancer treatment facilities have begun to consider their own carbon footprint and started a process to achieve carbon neutrality.”
Climate Depot’s Morano: “Here is a question for the American Cancer Society: If you need cancer treatment, would you go to a cancer treatment center that was worried about its carbon footprint? Or one that was worried about delivering the best possible modern care possible?”
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How many can they come up with? Surgery Causes Global Warming?! Study Shows ‘Anesthesia Agent Is Greatest Potential Contributor to Global Warming’– Claim: ‘Anesthetics used by a busy hospital contribute as much to global warming as the emissions from hundreds of cars per year’
Restrict anesthesia to save climate & Harvard Med to ‘Integrate Climate’ Into M.D. Curriculum & American Cancer Society Frets ‘carbon footprint of cancer care’– The Great Medical Reset: Your Doctor will treat the climate first — not your well-being — and you will be happy. Doctors care more about planetary care than patient care.
Climate Depot’s Marc Morano on Addison Smith’s In Focus on One America TV – Broadcast Feb. 8, 2022.
The practice of medicine is supposed to be evidence based. Clearly all this green cred medical quackery isn’t. Good list of hospitals and doctors to avoid at all costs.
COVID proved that what we have now for healthcare is something much less than what is was before.
Considering that Carbon = Life…
For a.hospital to.eliminate CARBON they must eliminate LIFE
Good comment. Actually, at the beginning COVID was quite serious. Deep lung involvement with broken glass X-ray diagnosis of lower lobes. Frequently fatal in the elderly and those with co-morbidities like obesity. Apparently not aerosolized. So most of the early extreme reaction was IMO justified. 6 foot social distance to prevent droplet contact is a good example. Masks another to prevent exhaled (cough, sneeze) droplets. Was talking to my dental hygienist today (regularly scheduled cleaning. Dr. Rudnick’s practice alone lost 15 patients in Fort Lauderdale in 2020-2021. Never happened before in Fort Lauderdale.
But after about a year and a half, ‘we’ learned two things. 1. Virus was rapidly mutating to be more transmissible but less virulent—exactly as infectious disease evolutionary theory predicted back in the late 1800s. Evolving toward a more typical URI—common cold. We will end up with same about 90 rhinovirus cold causes, plus 5 instead of 4 coronavirus causes. 2. In that process, the COVID virus at least partly aerosolized. At that point we knew (and Fauci should have known) that masks were now useless, just as known for decades for aerosolized influenza. (Aerosolized is much easier in low humidity indoor winter air, which is why influenza is mainly a seasonal winter disease.)
Apparently not aerosolized.
Of course being a common cold it was aerosolized. Th 6 ft distance was based on a paper of a model written by a highschool student whose father worked at Los Alamos and had access to the White House. So based on no real science that was included and dredged back up again as the “pandemic” (ha!) unfolded.
It was fatal in the elderly and those with comorbidities because of the medical treatments (intubation) they received way too late in their infection cycle. “Go home and come back if you don’t feel better” was the standard response. By then it was too late, they were intubated and died. Also institutions were paid $32K for each intubation. What’s not to lose?
Note that there were more than a few very courageous doctors who provided early alternative repurposed (illegal) treatment and never had a patient enter a hospital and die. Funny about that, eh?
What I don’t understand is that all of this (as you noted) is widely understood and yet look at what happened.
I don’t know the quality of the research but I remember reading about mask testing under various conditions using (I believe) UV light and high speed video (or multi framd photos, not video?) to see what actually happens from sneezing, coughing, and just normal speaking through a mask. The results said that 25 feed was the minimum distance to effectively avoid (invisible to human eyes) moisture droplets that went through the mask at high speed.
At the beginning of the outbreak the news was full of government and institution doctors saying that masks would not help with tiny viruses but the media finally got everyone so frenzied that I think they finally gave in – and then dug in with their stupid pronouncements.
Sweden did f-all and got the same result as the locked up, terrified, unemployed, depressed or suicidal countries like Canada, USA, UK, France, etc.
There are masks and then there are masks.
The surgical masks you see most people wear are pretty much useless. Any mask that attaches over the ears is useless.
N95 masks will stop viruses that are encased in water droplets. They also work good when mowing the lawn.
The aerosolized mask effectiveness analogy is a chain link fence in a snow storm.
Andy, I don’t recall a masking study that reached that conclusion, but I do recall one from Duke University looking for droplets through various materials using a similar method. They tested by “sneezing” through a hole in a box covered with various mask materials. One glaring absence from the testing that I noticed was testing droplet expulsion from around the edges of the mask.
“Note that there were more than a few very courageous doctors who provided early alternative repurposed (illegal) treatment and never had a patient enter a hospital and die. Funny about that, eh?“
In February of 2020 a nursing home near Toronto Ca, the Valley
View Residence Nursing Home had a scabies outbreak at the same
time covid hit. It was a 4 story home with the outbreak on the 4th
floor. They first treated with a medicated ointment but that didn’t work
so they used a 12 mg Ivermectin pill, the residents on the lower floors
got a lower dose, 4mg. It became known then that Ivermectin was an effective treatment but it was covered up by the medical establishment. There were two other scabies outbreaks in
Europe at the same time one in France and the other in Austria. I know
several people who used veterinarian Ivermectin including a couple of doctors. If the hospitals knew these doctors were taking IVM they would have lost their license.
Nothing “illegal” about prescribing FDA approved drugs to treat an off-label condition – it’s a pretty common practice. Doctors prescribing IVM and HCQ early on (as early as March 2020) were saving patients, but big Pharma and Fauci could not allow that to happen since if there was an effective treatment, there would be no need for new vaccines or other new expensive treatments – think Remdesivir. Both IVM and HCQ have been used safely for decades. IVM in particular has an extraordinarily robust safety profile proven over decades of use, yet both HCQ and IVM were demonized by the Big Pharma bought and paid for FDA, MSM and to a large extent, social media and they all had a coordinated message.
The only danger posed by IVM and HCQ was to Big Pharma profits since both are now off-patent and very inexpensive compared to the Vaccines and other new “treatments”.
The vaccine was approved under a Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). In order to get the EUA the manufacturer has to certify that there are no existing treatments which can be repurposed. So that ruled out things like Ivermectin and HCQ. Hospital administrators were aware of this, so any staff trying to repurpose a treatment would lose their privileges.
A lot of “repurposing” was done in hospital parking lots…
First, there was no EUA in March 2020, so there would be no reason for doctors or hospitals not to use it. Second, while your comment re: the certification may be true, what it proves is the collusion/corruption between the pharmaceutical companies and the FDA given that both HCQ and IVM do in fact work, and they both knew it. Roughly 20% of all prescriptions are for repurposing an FDA approved drug to treat an off-label condition. IVM is commonly prescribed and used to treat scabies, but it was never approved for that purpose.
Since a significant portion of FDA funding comes from the Pharmaceutical industry – they pay a fee to the FDA when a new drug or vaccine is approved – the FDA is incentivized to approve new drugs.
The EUA issue date for Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was Dec 11, 2020. Prior to that date the FDA and CDC both strongly recommended against the use of HCQ and Ivermectin or anything else ostensibly due to a lack of studies… No administrator would allow that and risk the legal implications. The EUA absolved the manufacturer and hence the provider of any legal responsibility for the product. Billions were at stake. People’s lives, not as much…
The scabies outbreak with IVM was in effect a double blind
study. A daughter of one of the residents did a Utube video
that was censored but did one that was left on–>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XCYzpHBEkI
Trevor Marshal was doing invitro studies and added
IVM to his series. He did a video on how it works and
the CDC got it taken down. The medical industrial complex
knew how this worked but chose a different path. Criminal
in my view.
The CDC public advisement that “you are
not a horse so don’t take IVM” likely killed a lot of people.
I have a relative that is a MD and their entire staff was on HCQ
as a prophylactic and was 100% effective while dead bodies
piled up like cordwood.
After all this the climate change rhetoric is lame.
The reason they came out strongly against both HcQ and IVM is that they knew it worked – not because of lack of studies as there were plenty, in fact far more studies on them than than what were done on Remdesivir when it was approved. They knew that if there were early treatments that worked, there would be no need for the vaccines and big pharma would lose out on the $billions you mentioned and the FDA/CDC would lose out on a large funding source.
In addition to the video posted by Mr. Ed, here is another one re: nursing homes and assisted living in Virginia – same results. If you treat with IVM, lives were saved, if not, lives were lost.
Also, look at the results in Uttar Pradesh – https://rescue.substack.com/p/the-media-is-silent-but-the-data
The data is overwhelming. Check out the testimonials on the FLCCC website – there are many like this one: https://covid19criticalcare.com/a-small-town-doctor-needed-a-way-to-stop-the-covid-19-surge-in-his-community-he-found-it-mar-8-2021/
Another great read is from Dr. Zelenko – https://principia-scientific.com/covid19-dr-zelenkos-statement-to-u-s-senate-committee-homeland-security/
Lastly, the EUA does not make prescribing IVM or HcQ illegal as long as there is proper informed consent – something that is required when administering any treatment but something that was missing from the roll-out of the novel gene therapies.
Millions of lives around the world would have been saved had our health agencies told the truth and embraced the use of inexpensive and very safe early treatment protocols.
Some people that tested positive for covid died from bacterial pneumonia, which could have been successfully treated with antibiotics.
“Dr. Rudnick’s practice alone lost 15 patients in Fort Lauderdale in 2020-2021. Never happened before in Fort Lauderdale.” Really? Find that hard to believe in a place full of retirees. Maybe it seems different because everyone who died with the sniffles, even cancer and heart attack victims, and apparently a few traffic accident victims, was labeled as a COVID death.
Maybe if they were able to get outside and socialize so many would have not killed themselves or otherwise died from stress that the unexplained excess deaths wouldn’t be a thing.
The governments went nuts with their procedures designed by committees based on idiot models, and turned a bad SARS outbreak into a catastrophe.
Or better yet if you really want to reduce CO2, just close the hospitals altogether and let people die.
Or you can make health care “free” but require people to have political connections in order to see a doctor before you die.
Maybe that’s the intent.
But hopefully the ambulance casers are lacing up for all the wrongful death lawsuits resulting from some bean-counter or CO2-counter depriving someone of proper healthcare.
Actually I am surprised that hasn’t already happened in Canada just because of all the long wait-times and lack or doctors and nurses.
Greens despise people, and this is confirmation.
Anyone following these green proposals should be facing a malpractice suit.
At the minimum.
Greens are really communists and yes, communists hate people and killing people for their cause is how they get their jollies.
Just let us know what the plans are for EcoHealth Alliance and NIH research grants to the Wuhan Institute. The carbon units want to know before they get erased.
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WSJ
U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 OutbreakIdentification of three who worked at Wuhan Institute of Virology fuels suspicion for proponents of lab-leak theory…
NIH didn’t respond to requests for comment. Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, declined to comment.
I wonder whether reporters who wrote how insane the lab-leak theory was a few years ago remember what they used to write. Maybe they never compromised, and still feel the same way.
reporters who wrote how insane the lab-leak theory was
I’m still seeing some, and many of the general public, still clinging to that position.
“U.S.-Funded Scientist Among Three Chinese Researchers Who Fell Ill Amid Early Covid-19 Outbreak”
These scientists supposedly got infected in November 2019, and some people are claiming these scientists are the ones who caused the spread to the general population, but that doesn’t sound right. There are indications that the Wuhan virus was in the population as early as August or September of 2019, so this virus was spreading before the scientists got infected.
Separate comment, since I posted on COVID here as a somewhat SME several times in the first year. Stuff we knew at the outset:
Stuff we knew after about about 1.5 years:
Stuff we know now:
The perpetrators of the MRNA “vaccines” disgracefully trashed their Hippocratic oaths to –
‘FIRST DO NO HARM”
The perpetrators of the MRNA “vaccines” disgracefully trashed their Hippocratic oaths to –
‘FIRST DO NO HARM”
That’s old news, Hippocratic oath died with abortionists and sex change butchers.
I’d be very surprised if any pharmaceutical company employees are required to take the Hippocratic oath.
Also right from the start, the average age at death
fromwith COVID was the average life expectancy, as shown by Italian stats.That’s a good point about the vaccination rate and excess morbidity – though that could also be do to the mRNA-caused spike proteins wandering far away from the injection site and building up in the liver – in spite of being promised that that would never happen.
Other things that were known early on by a number of doctors was that early treatment using FDA approved drugs like IVM and HcQ worked. Had the FDA embraced the use of the protocols using either or both of these drugs early on, the pandemic would never have happened. Both have extraordinarily robust safety profiles proven over decades of use while the vaccines have proven to be neither safe or effective as illustrated by VAERSANALYSIS – over 3 times the number of deaths are associated with the Vaccines since December 2020 than from all other vaccines combined since 1990 – https://vaersanalysis.info/2023/06/16/vaers-summary-for-covid-19-vaccines-through-6-9-2023/
See also https://c19ivm.org/meta.html
“The health sector is responsible for 8.5 percent of U.S. emissions of greenhouse gases”
I’d like to see a pie chart. I did not see math errors in this article, but percentage contributions I’ve heard along the way seem to exceed 100 percent.
So if we shut down all the hospitals we can eat meat again?
Drs will have to give up their Porsches and XL SUVs – for the sake of the children!
Sounds like whoever is promoting this stuff needs to see a Doctor!
Psychiatric?
Just more government intervention in our lives pushed by activists. Enough already!
Isn’t it nice that the hospitals are doing whatever they are told to do by Big Government to protect their federal funding? Yesterday, at the hospital, after filling a ‘p*ss bottle”, I tried to wash my hands in water. Nope, 2 drops only. But I was able to dig around and find a soap/alcohol impregnated tissue package to use. I don’t know (or care) what the plastic wrapper and tissue and disposal “carbon” footprint was. The ruinous government regulation will soon destroy us. No doubt about it.
That doesn’t make any sense – did they follow you into the bathroom?
Such CO2 insanity and interference will end up causing more disease and death.
How can any doctor or hospital board, always fearful of malpractice lawsuits, ever approve of such CO2 stupidity?
Answer: this is regarding government run hospitals! Kiss your butt goodbye!
No BR, just a hospital room waiting for the discharge doctor before getting into the wheelchair to leave. I asked to be wheeled to the BR but the Orderly opened a cabinet and handed me what I should have referred to as a (urinal? 1000 cc? plastic bottle) and left.
Oh please. . I have used up all my righteous indignation for this month .
Here is the whole problem.
“Without huge new efforts, the U.S. will have trouble reaching its ambitious emissions reduction goals.”
Ambitious reduction goals that is the problem. Number one who set the goals, on what evidence, on who’s authority and most importantly what exactly are we attempting to do and how will these huge new efforts achieve it?
These guys are a bunch of flakes. Our government needs to be drastically downsized, starting by eliminating the HHS/CDC and related departments. Covid showed without a doubt that they are not up to the task. If we actually need something like them we would be better served starting all over. My advise would be to not rehire the top 1000 administrators if for no other reason than covid.
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What a stupid article. In dry areas, water timers just make sense, and don’t ‘green’ anything. My water timers actually allow me to use way more water.
Desflurane should be used when needed, but may not always be the best option.
Gardens on the roof are just wasteful unless you’ve got volunteers who want to take care of it.
What about those medical helicopters, or ambulances? Bet they’re belching CO2.
How about not allowing (pushing) kids to make irreversible elective decisions before they know what they’re doing? They’re going insane.
A 70yr old: “I’ve never visited a doctor, I don’t take any drugs, prescription or otherwise and am in perfect health. Physically and mentally”
30yr old:”OMG, what’s wrong with you?”
Think about it…that chronic poor health and disease have become normalised.
….. and while you’re on, consider that there are myriad anti-cancer drugs that have been around since absolutely forever.
Also anti covid, anti Alzheimers, anti diabetes. anti psoriasis, anti MS, anti autism, anti tooth-decay, anti hypertension, anti stroke, anti ageing etc
They should all be as cheap as chips and available in abundance at any and every food-store without prescription and without governmental or interfering busybody diktat
Why are they not there?
Where are they now?
You know me, you know where they are and how they got there
i.e. Where that joyriding Titanic sub is now = at the bottom of the ocean, going nowhere and not coming back.
It was predicted – everybody laughed
At $4 Trillion pa, (US price) rising exponentially as we read here because of diktat not least, it is One Very Bad and Very Expensive Joke.
In the UK, government health expenditure has doubled in the 3yrs since covid yet life expectancy is plummeting and excess death rate is at record level.
Why?
And going to get much worse because folks are turning to even cheaper nastier junk mush food = because they can’t afford decent stuff nor can they afford the gas/electric/power/fuel to cook it if they did buy any
About those anti-cancer drugs that have been around for absolutely ever Peta –
whacha got for unresectable stage 4?
Asking for a friend 🙄
Some anti-cancer drugs have been around for decades, others are brand new.
Why is it you are so convinced that such drugs should be cheap?
Most cancer drugs have small markets.
After all, patients are not sustainable; they are all going to die anyway, sooner or later. What’s the difference?
No doubt just like the heat generated by humans living in the modern world — if you use the right units to produce big sounding numbers — and ignore that all the heat from all human activities in a year doesn’t equal the amount of heat generated by the sun shining on the earth every hour or two.
Some efficiency efforts are worthwhile but the cost of many can never be recaptured during the lifetime of the devices/materials used to achieve them or the lifetime of the person(s) who have to pay for them; they never pay for themselves by their savings.
Only for those who spend too much time worrying about possible scary futures.
These people need a day job. They need to stop messing with the way things are done. But they can’t leave anything alone. They think they’re the ones who will save everything.
Those people need to be fired and possibly investigated for criminal negligence before someone dies from their stupidity.
“Reducing anesthetic gas”_________________________
This is more of the Global Warming Potential nonsense created by Sir John Houghton and appears in all six of the IPCC’s Assessment reports. It’s mathematical misdirection designed to produce large meaningless numbers where none exist. Some other well known examples of misdirection:
2+2=5
Missing Dollar Riddle
I am my own grandpa
There’s something really wrong with someone who is going to get “hung up” on cutting back on anesthesia gas… There’s an old saying – “strain at a gnat to swallow a fly” – which refers to wasting a huge effort to go after something tiny and inconsequential when instead, one could go after something meaningful and substantial.
Even for someone stupid and deluded enough to believe that humans have any control over the weather and climate, this is like worrying about mouse farts….
Just another indicator that “tackling climate change” (as if anyone could) has become a religious cult. All one needs to do is to look back at the history of the inquisitions. Sinners, witches, demons and “deniers” where everywhere, or so the inquisitors thought. Any little thing – even the tiniest thing, someone could be accused of doing or saying (or not doing/saying) and the inquisitors were on them like white on rice. People making uses of modern conveniences are today’s witches….
The Inquisition was an actual court – please educate yourself and stop confusing them with the witch burners.
As effective as these ‘Climate Change Fighting Machines’ would be, this leads to an obvious conclusion about the way to win the battle against Clima-Change™:
We must build many more hospitals!
Very worrying when the medical profession and the anaesthetists within that educated group of professionals, are believers in this climate alarm hoax.
Paraphrasing, ‘Those who can be forced to believe in fairy stories are capable of being persuaded to commit atrocities’
Killing off those who have no ‘beneficial’ contribution to make, simply by withholding necessary treatments, will become standard protocol for state medicine.
Here in the UK it was standard practice to decide who to treat and who to abandon. It was even given the name ‘The Liverpool Pathway’?
A policy that was developed under Labour’s administration until it was revealed to the wider public. Patients in hospital (on the pathway) were so desperate for water denied them by medical staff, they resorted to drinking from flower vases!
Be warned, the atrocities available under the ‘good cause’ umbrella, are endless.
From the article: “It’s a push spurred on by both medical professionals and Washington policymakers, who feel increased pressure to act amid the dangers of climate change”
What danger? You are just making things up. There is no danger from CO2. CO2 has not been shown to be dangerous in all these years of trying. Just saying it is so, doesn’t make it so.
Our leaders are implementing destructive policies for our societies in order to reduce CO2, when the claims of danger from CO2 are Pure Speculation, not backed up by observations. Complete madness.
‘Climate Change Fighting Machines’ ROFLOL! Politico must be run by a group of Ivy league indoctrinated adolescents.
We live at the mercy of the Climate insomuch as it changes naturally and there is nothing hospitals, Governments, motorists. indoctrinated sheeple carrying signs or teenage girls commuting globally by sailboat can do to prevent climate changing.
Banning gas stoves is actually counter productive as it will increase the need for coal fueled electricity and place unnecessary demand upon coal production. Now, If we put 10% of the money we are throwing away on transitioning to fund future adaptions’ and eliminate the spending on the other 90%, we might save the population from the One World Government Bureaucrats. Yeah, that’s the ticket. We need “Bureaucracy Fighting Machines.” Make ready the protest signs!
This illustrates why the entire climate crisis narrative is doomed to collapse and probably very soon. It starts with there being no observable factual basis for any of the claims – only manipulated computer models. But it ends with every prescribed action to battle the nonexistent climate crisis making life worse for the taxpayers and voters. You can lie and cheat 24 hours a day but if you stoop to destroying the quality of life of those who vote for you and pay your wages, you need to get ready for retribution.
Being a carbon based life form, I’m not sure ‘Decarbonize U.S. health care’ is a good idea.
The United States uses roughly 300 billion gallons of fresh water a day. That’s an average, of course, but it is assembled by summing the metered usage of municipal water sources. Those meters are accurate to +/- 1.5%. So we actually don’t know our water usage to better than 300 +/-4.5 billion gallons a day. Would it be possible to detect water savings in hospital scrub in sinks? Nope.
It reminds me of the hotel notices about reusing rather than laundering your towels every day. The United States reached 5 million hotel rooms total in 2015, though I suspect we’ve lost some since. If all were fully occupied 100% of the time (not even close), and everyone had all of the room’s linen washed daily, it would consume – worst case – 80 million gallons of water a day. That’s 1.78% of our ability to detect a difference in national water usage. Hotels – and now hospitals – want us to pretend we’re saving the planet so that they can put off doing laundry, or washing their hands. What BS.