Ashley McClure, MD
@ashennessy
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Working to activate the medical community’s trusted voice to demand climate justice—to protect the health and safety of everything we love. tweets are my own
Berkeley, CA
Joined September 2011
This Bay Area Doctor Says Climate Action Is Central to Health
kqed.org
Dr. Ashley McClure takes action on climate change by combining what she's good at with the work that needs doing.
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Protecting California’s public lands from oil and gas drilling is defending public health
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Federal plans for oil drilling along a million acres in California would change healthful, wild spaces into sources of pollution and illness.
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Act Now: Support Emissions Monitoring in Healthcare! https://t.co/UmdpzIEVac
@AmerMedicalAssn @docsforclimate @PermanenteDocs @CMAdocs
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🚨 Action Alert 🚨 - Our Climate and Health State Network is seeking organizational sign-ons to a letter to the American Hospital Association asking it to take the HHS Health Sector Climate Pledge. Learn more and sign on here: https://t.co/aEEEgDrQw9
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Climate Health Now May Monthly Community Meeting - learning about our state-wide campaigns and how YOU can get involved! https://t.co/ryaZeL5n3R
@CaClimateHealth @CMAdocs @AmerMedicalAssn @MS4SF
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Hospitals Are Investing Billions of Dollars in Fossil Fuels, Report Reveals https://t.co/z0lldxxpyp via @DeSmog @CaClimateHealth It's time for all health systems to invest in health & divest from the dirty fossil fuels fueling the climate health crisis. @AmerMedicalAssn @CMAdocs
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Join us on April 26 for the highly anticipated @Docs4Divestment report release The Biggest Malpractice: How Hospitals Betray the Public Trust with Billions in Fossil Fuel Pension Investments RSVP Here: https://t.co/awqAOX8rrp
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The latest report from the U.N.'s @IPCC_CH provides world leaders with a gold-standard summation of modern climate science. "Today's IPCC report is a how-to guide to defuse the climate time bomb. It is a survival guide for humanity," U.N. Secretary-General @antonioguterres
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"Build those long-lasting relationships and networks because together we will accomplish so much more." We loved hearing from Jerry Abraham and @ashennessy on their journey to bring the AMA into climate leadership for health equity. #ClimateHealth2023
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The AMA is hiring a Senior Policy Analyst II focused on climate change &environmental health! To help ensure the rights of all people to healthy and safe communities. @CaClimateHealth @docsforclimate @CMAdocs @PSRenvironment
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Healthcare & Climate Change: Prioritizing Health Equity AMA hosted webinar Feb 1st @8:00 PM Central/ 6:00p PT- all are welcome and needed! :) @CaClimateHealth @CMAdocs @AmerMedicalAssn @MS4SF @docsforclimate
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Healing our wounds and healing the world | Gary Cohen | TEDxSaoPaulo https://t.co/khyTuqfrJi via @YouTube @CaClimateHealth @AmerMedicalAssn @CMAdocs #MedTwitter
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Mandatory Reporting of Emissions to Achieve Net-Zero Health Care | NEJM https://t.co/Ad2izOBpJv
@CaClimateHealth @AmerMedicalAssn @CMAdocs #MedTwitter #climatechangeshealth
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Health care is responsible for approximately 8.5% of U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions. The authors note the need to measure and report emissions from health care organizations and propose ways to ...
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The healthcare sector accounts for 10% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, much of which comes from operating rooms. Listen to hear how ophthalmologists can play a big role in reducing our climate impact @AmerMedicalAssn @CaClimateHealth
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Health & Fitness Podcast · Updated Biweekly · Better Edge is a podcast for physicians. It showcases current research and breakthroughs in care by Northwestern Medicine. Northwestern Medicine is an...
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What Climate Change Is Already Doing to Children's Brains | Time @CaClimateHealth @CMAdocs @AmerMedicalAssn # medtwitter
time.com
The effect climate change is having on children's mental health and brain development must be addressed.
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This is progress!! Labor Department Clears Path for 401(k) Plans to Offer ESG Funds - WSJ @CaClimateHealth @PermanenteDocs @kpthrive now we can proceed with working with our pension managers to divest from dirty fossil fuels.
wsj.com
Few retirement plans currently give the option to make investments based on environmental, social and governance principles.
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Join @theNAMedicine listening session on December 8 to hear more about the forthcoming NAM Climate Communities Network and help inform the initiative before its launch! Register now: https://t.co/mQLOcuVRQF
#ClimateActionforHealth @CaClimateHealth @CMAdocs @AmerMedicalAssn
nam.edu
The NAM hosted the virtual Climate Communities Listening Session on December 8 to share more about the Climate Communities Network, a forthcoming initiative
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Billionaires are stupid, they are parasites, and they exist only because we allow them to. https://t.co/3d2Dwmp2ei
nytimes.com
Musk, Bezos, Bankman-Fried, Trump — some of our most prominent billionaires laid waste to their carefully cultivated image as benevolent saviors.
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AMA: U.S. health sector should decarbonize | American Medical Association yessssss!!! This is wonderful policy progress 🎉🌎@CaClimateHealth @CMAdocs @AmerMedicalAssn #medtwitter @PermanenteDocs @kpthrive
ama-assn.org
Climate change is a public health crisis, physicians say. The AMA calls for cutting greeenhouse gas emissions in half by 2030.
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