A collective group of medical professionals in Ireland who are focused on promoting, improving, and sustaining the health of humans by striving to improve the health of the environment.
“Our definition of planetary health is the achievement of the highest attainable standard of health, well-being, and equity worldwide through judicious attention to the human systems—political, economic, and social—that shape the future of humanity and the Earth’s natural systems that define the safe environmental limits within which humanity can flourish.”
Report of The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on planetary health, 2015
IDE is committed to being an agent for change. We work to make the Irish healthcare system more green.
IDE is committed to use our position of privilege to speak out on issues related to health and the environment. We do this through Direct Action and political engagement.
IDE aims to be involved in the promotion of planetary health science in Ireland. We have published papers and spoke at academic conferences.
IDE is committed to educating doctors and the public on the climate crisis and its health effects. We aim to be a conduit through which those interested can learn more about the issues facing us and how healthcare and climate interact.
IDE calling for government action outside the Dàil, Earth Day 2022
IDE testing out the new cycleway to Dún Laoghaire
IDE marching in Glasgow with Fridays for Future
Planetary Health Week stall at TUH
IDE members planting native trees at Tallaght Hospital
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We would like a protected Cork Hospital Cycleway for healthcare workers and the people of Cork!
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In Climate Conversations we talk to a diverse range of inspirational people who share a deep commitment to their communities and the natural world that sustains them. Through engaging and broad reaching conversations with leading authors, scientists, activists and politicians we discover some of the solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises that threaten our future and learn how these solutions will create a healthier, happier and more equitable world.
Dr Eoin Galavan is a clinical psychologist, working in adult mental health services for many years. He is a supervising psychologist and lecturer with the Doctorates in Clinical and Counselling Psychology, TCD, and a Charted Psychologist and Associate Fellow with the Psychological Society of Ireland.
Today we have a wide ranging conversation about some of the cognitive traps, pitfalls and indeed opportunities in how we think about climate change. There was so much to cover, there is definitely scope for a part 2!
See below for some of the links mentioned by Eoin:
Special-Interest-Group-for-Addressing-Climate-and-Environmental-Emergency
Pluralistic ignorance and underestimating others level of concern: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32412-y
PAIN (Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert) https://medium.com/the-ascent/why-some-people-cannot-believe-in-the-science-of-climate-change-31c45b626b6b#:~:text=PAIN%20is%20an%20acronym%20for,threat%20must%20be%20Abrupt%2C%20disruptive.
Wolfgang Blau on journalism https://wblau.medium.com/climate-change-journalisms-greatest-challenge-2bb59bfb38b8
Aldrich on social capital (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002764214550299)
Prevalence of climate anxiety https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(21)00278-3/fulltext
Britt Way Generation Dread https://www.brittwray.com/gen-dread
Joana Macy Active Hope https://www.activehope.info
The whole of life is coming to terms with yourself and the natural world. Why are you here? How do you fit in? What’s it all about?Sir David Attenborough
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