Opinion: If hospitals really want to fight climate change, they'll divest from fossil fuels

Opinion: If hospitals really want to fight climate change, they'll divest from fossil fuels (via latimesopinion)

have committed to divestment, citing a clash between fossil fuel extraction and their fundamental mission.

Hospitals should divest from fossil fuels for the same reason. We need to recognize that these investments fundamentally oppose our healthcare mission. We need institutions such as the National Academy of Medicine to call out fossil fuel companies as dangers to human health and provide leadership on how and why to incorporate fossil fuel divestment into existing climate change commitments across our industry.

The healthcare sector is capable of miracles. We mapped the human genome. We conduct microsurgery. We can — and must — divest from the fossil fuels that are sickening our patients and our world. Don Lieber is a surgical technician, nursing unit coordinator and director of the First Do No Harm campaign for fossil fuel divestment in the health sector.

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