Jack, sign the petition: The healthcare sector must divest from fossil fuels.
SIGN THE PETITION
Human-driven climate change is an existential threat to the health and wellbeing of humanity. It is a problem we are not close to solving. Even with the recent wins by the climate movement, current policy in the U.S. and internationally still has the world on track for catastrophe.
The healthcare sector has responded to this threat in many laudable ways. Many hospitals and major health organizations are changing their own operations to reduce emissions. Some have even issued strong policy statements endorsing the international consensus that temperature increases should be limited to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.
Yet, amid those adjustments and pledges, four prominent hospital systems–Kaiser Permanente, Mayo Clinic Health Systems, HCA Healthcare, and Ascension–continue investing in fossil fuels. A first-of-its-kind report finds pension funds of the major health networks have over $4.6 billion invested in fossil fuels.
Sign the petition: The healthcare sector must divest from fossil fuels.
SIGN THE PETITION
Fossil fuel companies are the chief drivers of our climate problem, and climate change directly impacts our health. By investing billions of dollars in these companies, hospital systems are not living up to their own standards. They are operating against their stated missions, their written sustainability policies, and the ethical foundation of modern medicine. If they continue to invest in fossil fuel companies, they will do so in contradiction to themselves.
It’s time for the healthcare sector to divest from fossil fuels. Climate change is happening now, and delays have consequences that could make all of us sicker for decades to come. They need to act now.
Sign the petition: The healthcare sector must divest from fossil fuels.
SIGN THE PETITION
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Erin Tulley, Daily Kos
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