202) Mark Vossler: Acknowledging climate change as a public health threat that will affect everyone
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mark Vossler is a full-time cardiologist in Seattle, Washington and serves as the President of the Washington Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), a movement of physicians championing climate action, social equity, and environmental justice. As the President of the Washington PSR chapter, Mark regularly visits Washington, D.C. to talk with the U.S. Congress about climate policy.
In this podcast episode, Mark sheds light on why we have to talk more about our nuclear arms race within the context of sustainability; how environmental injustice plays out within the field of medicine and healthcare; and more.
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| 1:12.1 | We put a ton of our military resources into protecting the fossil fuel supply, and we yap about |
| 1:18.6 | energy independence as an excuse to increase fracking in our own communities with all those health |
| 1:25.5 | risks. And so we're willing to put people in our own country at risk, |
| 1:30.2 | people worldwide at risk, create wars just to protect oil. |
| 1:36.5 | That was Dr. Mark Vossler, a full-time cardiologist |
| 1:39.8 | and president of the Seattle-Washington chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility. |
| 1:45.5 | Stay tuned as we're about to explore why we have to talk more about our nuclear arms race |
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