COVID-19, nuclear war, and global warming: lessons for our vulnerable world

June 15, 2020

tags: climate crisis, COVID-19, nuclear weapons

by IPPNW

The following op-ed was published in The Lancet on June 12, 2020.

by James E. Muller and David G. Nathan

The COVID-19 pandemic teaches lessons we must embrace to overcome two additional existential threats: nuclear war and global warming. Health professionals need to send a message to those whose lives we have vowed to protect: all three threats result from forces of nature made dangerous by triumphs of human intelligence, and all three can be solved by human intelligence.

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