ON FRI, Australian medical students joined forces with thousands of activists for the Global Climate Strike occurring simultaneously in nine locations across all states in Australia.
"As the future doctors of Australia, we are striking for the health of all our future patients and the planet," said Mikaela Misso, AMSA Code Green Co-National Coordinator, adding that anthropogenic climate change poses an immense threat to human health and wellbeing globally.
"From the acute harm caused by extreme weather events to the exacerbation of cardiovascular and respiratory disease burden, climate change is the greatest global health threat of the 21st century," Misso concluded.
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