Editor's Choice

What’s your carbon reduction strategy?

BMJ 2009; 338 doi: 10.1136/bmj.b1272 (Published 26 March 2009)
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b1272

Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment. Please log in or subscribe below.

  1. Fiona Godlee, editor, BMJ
  1. fgodlee{at}bmj.com

    Back in 2006 I wrote an Editor’s Choice called “What did you do about climate change Mum?” (BMJ 2006;332:10 June, doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7554.0-f). It suggested that doctors might start measuring their carbon footprint. The most interesting thing about this short piece was the response it received on bmj.com (www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/332/7554/0-f). What was this stuff doing in a medical journal? What was I doing uncritically accepting the propaganda of the global warming lobby?

    Things have changed since then. WHO’s director general Margaret Chan has called climate change the biggest public health challenge of the 21st century. And last week the UN and Red Cross warned that a …

    Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment

    Subscribe

    Article access

    Article access for 1 day

    Purchase this article for £20 $30 €32*

    The PDF version can be downloaded as your personal record

    * Prices do not include VAT

    Rapid responses

    THIS WEEK'S POLL

    BMJ most popular