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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 9h

They are moral and intellectual cowards

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. Thank you Dr Jacobs.

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 1d

As always - leadership from our💪🏾teachers💪🏾.

Thank you @aft.org for calling for decarbonizing our hospitals and schools.

#HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels.

#HealthFirst

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www.aft.org/resolution/s...

Support Decarbonization Of Our Public Schools, Colleges, Universities, Hospitals And City Buildings Through Inflation Reduction Act Funds

WHEREAS, the AFT has declared that we are in the middle of a climate emergency; andWHEREAS, unless we dramatically move away from using fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, we will succumb to the...

www.aft.org

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 1d

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Health professionals:

Did you know: major private US hospital systems invest $Billions in fossil fuels?

We're trying to change that.

Add your voice:
#HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels.

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firstdonoharm.earth/endorsement/

Calling All Health Professionals

Health professionals: Please sign the letter to 400+ private US healthcare executives, urging them to stop investing in fossil fuels.

firstdonoharm.earth

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 2d

Fossil Fuel Racism:

The Burden of Oil and Gas Development - American Journal of Public Health

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#ClimateJustice is #Justice

ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...

Fossil Fuel Racism: The Ongoing Burden of Oil and Gas Development in the Shadows of Regulatory Inaction | AJPH | Vol. 113 Issue 11

American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)

ajph.aphapublications.org

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 2d

Fossil fuels & pregnancy:

"Rising heat, extreme weather, food insecurity, and
other climate-related challenges are eroding quality
of life and shortening lifespans with particularly
devastating consequences for newborns, children,
and pregnant and postpartum women"

www.lshtm.ac.uk/media/92266

www.lshtm.ac.uk

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 3d

Climate-safe retirement is emerging now.
@climateretirement.bsky.social
Impacting...well everyone's future.
RetireBigOil.org

inthesetimes.com/article/clim...

Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line

Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.

inthesetimes.com

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 3d

Docs, nurses - health professionals- trying to do their share:
#EndFossilFinance
firstdonoharm.earth/endorsement/

Calling All Health Professionals

We are seeking 1,000 endorsements of this upcoming letter to 400 senior healthcare executives, urging them to end the massive financial investments in fossil fuels made by health institutions across…

firstdonoharm.earth

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 5d

Fossil fueled climate change exacerbates asthma in Detroit
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@hrw.org
and around the world.

#HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels. insideclimatenews.org/news/0610202...

Detroit Is the Nation’s Most Challenging City for People with Asthma, a New Report Suggests - Inside Climate News

Already plagued by industrial pollution and health care access issues, experts say climate change is making things even more difficult for people with asthma in Detroit.

insideclimatenews.org

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 6d

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Actors Launch Retire Big Oil Campaign, Urging SAG-Producers Pension Plan to Stop Investing Over $100M in Fossil Fuel Companies - Stand.earth

Jane Fonda, Rosario Dawson, Mark Ruffalo, 200+ actors join fellow union members calling for retirement protection, climate action

stand.earth

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 6d

Actors are stepping up on climate action. Thank you #RainnWilson.

And BRAVO to the +200 actors
also calling on their investment managers to stop investing in fossil fuels.

See🧵#RetireBigOil
@climateretirement.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/c...

Actor Rainn Wilson on How to Connect Climate Change and Spirituality

www.nytimes.com

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 7d

The health impacts of the fossil fuel industry have disproportionately impacted *generations* of Louisiana communities.
#EndFossilFinance

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@hrw.org

#HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels

www.hrw.org/report/2024/...

“We’re Dying Here”

The 98-page report, “‘We’re Dying Here’: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone,” documents how residents of Cancer Alley suffer the effects of extreme pollution from the fossil ...

www.hrw.org

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 7d

Censorship. Public health suffers. Big Oil profits.

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 8d

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023ERSS...

Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities

Fossil fuels - coal, oil, and gas - lie at the heart of the interconnected crises we face, including climate change, racial injustice, and public health. Each stage of the fossil fuel life cycle - ext...

ui.adsabs.harvard.edu

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 8d

www.greenpeace.org/usa/new-stud...

New Study: Fossil Fuels Disproportionately Impact Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Poor Communities Throughout The Supply Chain - Greenpeace - Greenpeace

Carbon Offsets, Cap-and-trade, CCS and Other “Carbon Centric” Policies Fail to Mitigate Air and Water Pollution The study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions wi...

www.greenpeace.org

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 8d

Why -of all sectors- its time #HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels.

Firstdonoharm.earth

First Do No Harm - Health professionals for fossil fuel divestment

Healthcare professionals are on the front lines of the health impacts of climate change driven by fossil fuels - it’s time #HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels.

Firstdonoharm.earth

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 9d

A new interactive map from ClimateTrace shows how air pollution from fossil fuels is threatening over 1.6 billion people around the world.

Want to see the air pollution where you live? Check the map here:

Fossil fuel burning poses threat to health of 1.6bn people, data shows

New interactive map tracking PM2.5 air pollution reveals 900m people in path of ‘super-emitting’ industrial facilities

www.theguardian.com

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 11d

📣 Prenatal exposure to extreme heat and PM2 is linked to brain development disorders.

The research linking fossil fuels to serious health harms is voliminous.

It's 2025: #HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels already.
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Inside Climate News @insideclimatenews.org · 16d

New research suggests that exposure to high heat and air pollution in the womb is altering brain development, affecting mental health and behavior years down the road.

Urban Heat and Air Pollution May Harm Developing Brains in the Womb, Study Suggests - Inside Climate News

Focusing on minority populations, the study’s findings show how low-income communities in New York City can bear generational consequences from climate change.

insideclimatenews.org

FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 12d

Health workers and health students:

Add your powerful voice:

It's time #HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels. Link in our bio!
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@psr.org
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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 12d

"Climate change is coming for hospitals" -Yale

Yet private-owned US hospital systems continue to invest $billions in fossil fuels.

It's a global #ClimateHealth crime, w profoundly harmful impacts on global health & #HealthJustice
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yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/07/clim...

Climate change is coming for hospitals » Yale Climate Connections

Thousands of hospitals are at risk of shutting down due to an extreme weather event. Experts say it’s time to adapt.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 13d

After growing frustration with increasingly unaffordable electricity prices, Pakistan is powering forward on solar – turning the country into one of the world’s largest new adopters of solar energy.

Pakistan is tapping into solar power at an 'unprecedented' rate. Here's why

Solar experts say there's never been a faster adoption of solar, with panels popping up on rooftops.

www.npr.org

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 13d

A new study from @cape-acme.bsky.social finds that the amount of methane gas burned during the start-up of an LNG export terminal is nearly THREE TIMES higher than during regular operations, threatening the health of neighboring communities.😷

Start-up emissions at B.C. LNG plants systematically underestimated, finds study

Researchers say B.C. regulators have underestimated pollution by ignoring LNG terminal start-up emissions.

www.biv.com

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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 13d

DRC🇨🇩:

Health centers report doubled respiratory cases, ground water contamination since European oil major Perenco began operations.

Big Oil causes big health problems. #JusticeForMoanda
#HealthJustice

#HealthcareDivest from fossil fuels, already
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FirstDoNoHarm2025 @firstdonoharm2025.bsky.social · 15d

Just a quick shout out to a real "Babe": rock-star humanitarian #JamesCromwell.

Thanks @mercyforanimals.org

#ClimateJustice is #Justice.

Mercy For Animals @mercyforanimals.org · 16d

From starring in Babe to supergluing himself to a Starbucks counter, James Cromwell has gone from beloved actor to full-blown animal rights legend. ✨

Here are 10 unforgettable moments where he stood up for animals and made a difference.
mercyforanimals.org/blog/10-reas...