Role of GPs in communicating lifestyle messages that are good for health and the climate

The BMJ, and Costello and colleagues, should be congratulated for taking a lead, once again, on the importance of climate change for public health and healthcare.1 The authors suggest several actions that health workers should take in response to this great and urgent challenge. Most of these—such as carbon taxes, reducing poverty and equity, stopping fossil fuel subsidies, and supporting green and energy saving …