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President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement has been condemned throughout the world for a long list of reasons. It’s a manifestation of complete detachment from the reality of climate science. The US economy will crawl into hibernation in a cramped den of dirty energy while the rest of the world eagerly exploits the enormous economic opportunities of clean energy. And it has quickly and decisively knocked the US off the leadership podium on the most important issue in the history of mankind. The White House, cheered on by Republican congressional leaders, is in defiance of the overwhelming majority of scientists, politicians and business leaders throughout the world, including many that run fossil fuel corporations.

At its core, the climate crisis is a public health crisis.

But at its core, the climate crisis is a public health crisis. Although physicians have been somewhat late to the game, they are now getting on board in a big way. Let’s take a cue from those relentless, repetitive TV drug ads: “Ask your doctor if the Paris Climate Agreement is right for you.” Here’s what your doctor says.

In 2009, Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment conducted a public seminar at the University of Utah Medical School on how damage to the climate threatens public health. The same year, 29 distinguished medical experts wrote in one of the world’s most distinguished medical journals that global warming was, “the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, and will put the lives and well being of billions of people at increased risk.”

The American Association for the Advancement of Science recently stated the climate crisis will have “massively disruptive consequences to societies and ecosystems, including widespread famines, lethal heat waves, more frequent and destructive natural disasters, and social unrest.”

In April 2016 the historically conservative American Medical Association filed an amicus brief before…