In this episode, I want to explore why climate education is a health issue by looking at what actually keeps us well, and what happens when the systems we depend on begin to destabilise.
This is a reflection on the living world, on physical reality, and on why informed climate education matters at a time of change.

Key points:

• I begin in gratitude for the living world, and how amazing this biosphere really is!
• Health is not something we create alone; it arises from stable temperatures, clean water, fertile soils and a functioning atmosphere.
• Climate conversations often focus on ecology or policy, but beneath them sit physical laws that govern energy, heat and motion - Physics and Chemistry.
• Climate change is driven by an energy imbalance, not by opinion or belief.
• Chemistry explains what substances are, but physics explains what energy does in a system.
• Climate change is already a health issue, showing up in bodies, hospitals and food systems.
• Human health has always been intertwined with ecological health.
• What’s most at risk and the stability  of ecosystems, food systems and social systems
• Denial persists not because the science is unclear, but we don’t assimilate it and come together - I would love to see Cross Party politics.
• Language matters with Net Zero and Real Zero, especially the difference between delaying harm and stopping it.
• Education is not an extra burden here; it’s one of the few tools we have for prevention.
• Staying human means staying in relationship - with each other and with the living world.

Music by Geoff Robb: www.geoffrobb.com 

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