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Sehjal R Bhargava, MD
@srbhargava.bsky.social
PGY3 UOttawa PHPM | Family Doctor | Harvard Chan Student | CAPE & GCHA Board 🌱 | Climate Justice | PaRx | (she/her)
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cli...

"Money talks. Nature does not have a voice in economic decisions when it is not laid out in dollar"

A great article out of the Intact Center on how to value our natural assets 💚
Climate group publishes guide on how municipalities can put a dollar value on nature
HALIFAX - A climate change think tank has released a guide encouraging municipalities to assign specific dollar values to natural assets ranging from wetlands to coastal dunes.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
January 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Friends, you should get to know the term "carbon capture and storage" very well.

After all, your tax $ may be paying for it long into the future.

How much longer will Canadians be asked to prop up massive oil and gas companies?

@cape-acme.bsky.social

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/09/n...
Pathways Alliance's flagship project looks like a big money loser
According to a global think tank, the business case for the Pathways Alliance's flagship carbon capture project is going up in a cloud of smoke, renewing questions of the wisdom of putting taxpayer do...
www.nationalobserver.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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we are truly f#*cked unless we all step up to stop this.
LNG is not a climate solution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Climate bomb’ warning over $200bn wave of new gas projects
New liquefied natural gas projects could produce 10 gigatonnes of emissions by the end of the decade, close to the annual emissions of all coal plants
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Less than 24 hours left of #INC5. Do you want strong regulation on plastic pollution to protect your health and the planet?
Help spread our message to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change & highlight the following priorities!! 🇨🇦🌏
The plastics treaty talks are nearing their end at #INC5. It's critical to secure: 1️⃣ A lifecycle approach that protects health & Indigenous Rights, 2️⃣ Limits on plastic production, and 3️⃣ Strong controls on harmful chemicals & polymers harming our planet. #PlasticPollution
November 30, 2024 at 8:46 AM
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"The inability of our security and political elites to perform their core duty of the objective assessment of risk is, however, not due to some particular intellectual failing. It stems from layer upon layer of ancient inherited culture and immensely powerful institutional and economic interests"
I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia | Anatol Lieven
‘Risk’ analyses largely ignore the dangers of the climate crisis. Unless we wake up to them, they will soon outweigh all others, says Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Is my local councillor on this thing?
November 19, 2024 at 6:07 PM
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CAPE doctors are on the ground at #INC5 in Busan! We’re pushing for a just #PlasticsTreaty that protects vulnerable communities. Plastics harm health from cradle to grave. Canada must lead on limiting production and banning toxic additives.
With Dr. Sharon Dodd & Dr. @srbhargava.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 6:06 PM
INC-5 @unep.bsky.social has officially started- with a very long plenary session. Looking forwards to moving into negotiations and continuing to highlight the importance of keeping health at the center of decisions made here in Busan @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Excited to be on the ground at @unep.bsky.social INC-5 in Busan, South Korea with @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social & CAPE to highlight health within the negotiations process as a globally biding treaty on plastic pollution is finalized
November 24, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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I made a climate and health / planetary health / sustainable healthcare starter pack... aiming to include lots of disciplines for interest - let me know if you should be in here, or have recommendations!

And hello everyone!

go.bsky.app/CNgg2Hv
November 11, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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I've created a starter pack to bring together people working at the intersection of health and the environment. It's brand new, so please tell me who I should add 😊

go.bsky.app/PAdBgUa
November 14, 2024 at 1:31 AM