2007: “So how fast must we treat climate disease? Unjustified delay in starting treatment has happened often enough in medicine that there is now a cautionary aphorism: “The doc who waits until dead certain may wind up with a dead patient.” Few climate scientists or politicians, it appears, are accustomed to thinking like physicians (or, for that matter, military officers) about the tradeoffs between urgency and uncertainty,” writes William H. Calvin in “How to Treat Climate Change” (Calvin, 2008).
Reference: Calvin, William H. Global Fever. University of Chicago Press, 2008. P.7. http://global-fever.org/
Image Description: Doctor Checking a Child in Kosgoda, Sri Lanka. Photo taken by Sarvodaya Shramadana, 2005Jan9. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Doctor_Checking_a_Child.jpg Image Permission: This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.
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