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Advocacy

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In the mid-1980's, the Director of NASA's Institute for Space Studies, Dr. James Hansen, began testifying before the US Congress about the fact that carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels was radically altering the Earth's atmosphere - a change that would, if left unchecked, create massive shifts in weather patterns across the planet. Fast forward to 2019, the  World Health Organization (WHO) announced that climate change had become the greatest threat to human health in  the 21st century. Every major medical and health professional organization in the United States has since adopted  a similar position.

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Besides the devastating impacts on the health of NJ citizens, common sense says that if we do not accelerate our response to this threat, the financial costs to our communities will grow exponentially - further burdening while our already troubled health care system.

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As healthcare professionals, we hold the position that society has a moral obligation to reduce carbon pollution as quickly as possible. As is being demonstrated every day in New Jersey and across the nation, those actions will yield myriad benefits - including cleaner air, protection of public health, creation of family-sustaining local jobs for low- and medium-income workers, and energy independence. There can be only one conclusion - implementing an equitable clean energy transition must be a top priority for all of us.

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