Dr Carolyn Orr - Environmental Pollution and our Health

Dr Carolyn Orr is a Neurologist and Clinician Researcher from Western Australia, specialising in degenerative brain diseases. A member of Doctors for the Environment Australia, Dr Orr is also a passionate environmental advocate, speaking out against fossil fuels in the interest of health.

Carolyn recently delivered a powerful TEDxUWA speech where she outlined the relationship between fossil fuels, climate change and human health. In this chat she expands on that, giving us a frighteningly long catalogue of health implications stemming from air pollution exposure.

This episode should serve as a wake-up call to all that listen - that we need transformative change now. We need to stop ignoring human suffering in the pursuit of profit.

In this episode we discuss:
• Carolyn’s background in Neurology and clinical research
• What piqued Carolyn’s interest in environmental issues and what drives her action now
• Environmental pollution and wide-ranging and alarming impacts on human health – from asthma to cancer to heart disease and more
• The major sources of air pollution
• Australia’s out-of-date air pollution regulatory system
• Findings from the latest IPCC report and why change needs to happen NOW
• How the fossil fuel industry has stymied climate action
• Climate actions everyone can implement to change our lives for the better

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