Published 30 June 2009, doi:10.1136/bmj.b2661
Cite this as: BMJ 2009;338:b2661
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NHS staff are invited to see climate change film free of charge
Adrian O’Dowd
1 London
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All NHS staff will have the chance to see the film The Age of Stupid, about the consequences of climate change, free of charge thanks to investment from various organisations, including the BMJ.
The BMJ will also be hosting a webcast discussion of climate change and health on Tuesday 7 July at 1 pm, which has been prompted by the film and the issues it considers.
The webcast panel, chaired by Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, will discuss the film’s conclusions and how much the NHS has to gain from taking climate change seriously.
The film is a drama documentary hybrid in which Pete Postlethwaite plays an elderly man living in 2055 in a devastated world. Watching archive footage from 2008, he asks why the world did not do anything about climate change then.
The film was shot in seven countries over three years and features
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