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Dwindling supplies of fossil fuels will have
a transforming effect on "business as usual"
in our world. One of the under-reported
challenges is in public health and medicine
which will face significant challenges in
the face of the world-wide energy emergency.
A day-long conference held at Bristol Community
College on April 14, 2009 brought
experts in the field
to explore how healthcare professionals can prepare now
to maintain high standards of healthcare
delivery and care, and how citizens
must demand change.
Richard Heinberg,
author of
eight books including Peak Everything
(New Society, 2007) and a Senior Fellow of
Post Carbon Institute
gave the
keynote address by video connection from Los
Angeles.
Sociologist
Dan Bednarz,
PhD, represented a consortium among public
health and health care stakeholders and
actors working to address the bottleneck of
ecological crises facing medicine and public
health.
Jill Stein, M.D.
a former staff physician at Harvard
Community Health Plan and Simmons College
Health Center and co-author of
In Harm's
Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development,
concluded the morning presentations.
Conference participants were invited to
attend afternoon workshops with each of the
speakers. For further information, contact Sociology Professor Nancy Lee
Wood at 508-678-2811, Ext.2043.
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(Top row, left and right) Dean Fred Rocco of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Sociology Professor Nancy Lee Wood welcomed participants to the conference held in the Jackson Arts building. (Top row, center) Conference participants help themselves to fresh fruit served in recycled containers. (Middle row, left) Sociologist Dan Bednarz, Ph.D. talks about the impact of the peak oil crisis on the health care system. (Middle row, right) Richard Heinberg gives a live address via video connection from California. (Bottom row, left and center) BCC nursing students listen as Dr. Jill Stein describes some of the potential opportunities that the crisis presents that she and co-author Dr. Ted Schettler describe in their recently published Environmental Threats to Healthy Aging (downloadable free at www.agehealthy.org). (Bottom row, right) A member of the audience asks Dr. Stein about the impact of world population growth on health systems. |
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