Arnagretta Hunter on the impacts of the climate crisis on human health and rethinking our society

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Arnagretta Hunter is a cardiologist based in Canberra and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School. She is also Human Futures Fellow at the ANU College of Health and Medicine and part of the Commission for the Human Future, an ANU initiative which brings together researchers and thinkers to promote ways we can prevent human extinction.

With Arnagretta, we talked about growing up on a farm, the impact of the climate crisis on human health, science denial in politics, and the powers of imagination, utopia and dystopia for change.

References mentioned during this episode:

• Commission for the Human Future
• Doctors for the Environment Australia
• Australia21
• Global Green and Healthy Hospitals
• Climaginaries
• Surviving & Thriving in the 21st Century, Commission for the Human Future
• Doctors need to meet challenge of climate change, InSight+
• The carbon footprint of Australian health care, The Lancet
• We Can Waste Another Crisis, or We Can Transform the Economy, Jacobin Mag
• 'Cashed-up activists’ should not be able to hold up developments, Australia's resources minister says, The Guardian
• Yuval Noah Harari
• From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want, Rob Hopkins
• The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells
• Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap, Annabel Crabb
• Climate Change and the People's Health, Sharon Friel
• How Democracy Ends, David Runciman
• Agency, William Gibson