Climate Change and the Risk of Nuclear War

Watertonw Citizens has always believed the issues of peace, justice and the environment are related and part of a larger struggle. Therefore we are excited to promote an event that explores the relationship between two of the most serious challenges our world faces – climate change and the risk of nuclear war.

While there are many enormous public health threats facing humanity today, two of them, climate change and nuclear war are unique in the existential threat they pose to human civilization and the survival of our species. Physicians for Social Responsibility, supported by our global federation, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, plans to explore the important links between the two at Climate Change and the Growing Risk of Nuclear War: a Health Care Perspective, a symposium to be held on October 15th at the Tufts University School of Medicine’s Sackler Auditorium. Speakers will include:

• Jennifer Leaning, MD, SMH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Barry Levy, MD, MPH, Tufts University School of Medicine
• Bill McKibben, Middlebury College, 350.org
• Catherine Thomasson, MD, Executive Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Ira Helfand, MD, co-President, IPPNW

Registration is free and open to the public. Register by either clicking on the “Tickets Available” link or visiting psr.org/symposium (which also includes the full symposium schedule). This event will livestreamed on youtube.com/psrnational/live.