By DAVID INTROCASO The Problem From an anthropocentric perspective, the climate crisis is fundamentally a threat to human health and survival. The US healthcare industry significantly contributes to this threat. US healthcare’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) annually account for over 600 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents or ~10% of total US annual GHG emissions.[1] If US healthcare was its own country, it would rank ~12th worldwide in carbon pollution. Tragically, the industry and the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), responsible for regulatin...
Institutional Betrayal: HHS’s Failure to Decarbonize the Healthcare Industry (Part 1)
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