Monday, August 30, 2021

HHS unveils office to treat climate change as a health issue

Politico reports:
The federal health department is creating a new office to address climate change as a public health issue, in an effort to tie growing environmental concerns to the administration’s broader health equity agenda.
Big Brother is watching you:
The Office of Climate Change and Health Equity will take a wide-ranging approach to evaluating the impact that the warming planet is having on people’s health, including initiatives aimed at reducing health providers’ carbon emissions and expanding protections to the most vulnerable populations.
There's more:
The climate office will be small to start; HHS has requested $3 million from Congress to fund it next year, with plans to draw on existing resources until then. But Becerra insisted that it will play a central role in climate-related work across the department, characterizing it as an extension of the work he did as California attorney general to advance “environmental justice.”
HHS is now part of the End Times religious movement.