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The Mandarin Opinion: health, not gas, should be put at the centre of Australia’s economic recovery

“In a future where climate change looms large as a threat to health and where our primary disease burden is shaped by lifestyle and environment, shouldn’t we place health front and centre of our COVID-19 economic recovery and dare to reimagine our cities and energy systems, that our children might have a healthy future?”  asks GP and DEA Honorary Secretary Dr Richard Yin. 

As governments around the world look for ways to cut greenhouse gases, and energy systems undergo a profound shift away from fossil fuels towards renewables, a healthy future is becoming not a matter of if but when. 

 Will Australia be part of this future?

The full article was published in The Mandarin on 18 October 2020