David Wallinga, MD

If Earth's not healthy, we're not healthy. Building healthier food, climate and health systems @NRDC, and @HFAction. Tweets are my own

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

Every year, the oil and gas industry saves BILLIONS of dollars at the taxpayers’ expense. Meanwhile, the pollution from the fossil fuel industry places communities and nature at risk while worsening the climate crisis. It’s time #EndFossilFuelSubsidies.

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

Learn more about Pennsylvania's best chance to fight the #ClimateCrisis with #RGGI: https://t.co/c9X5lU88Lw
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[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

HUGE: The developer for #KeystoneXL announced it's cancelling the massive tar sands pipeline! This project has been fought by Indigenous communities & environmental activists for over a decade— & was a top priority for @POTUS, who denied a key permit his first day in office.

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

The Biden Administration’s commitment to conserve 30% of our land & water by 2030 is a huge step in the right direction to protect farmland— which puts food on our tables, provides homes & travel-ways for wildlife, & decreases carbon emissions. 🚜👏 #30x30 https://t.co/L4atCfEieX

[Vijay Limaye, PhD @vlimaye]

Thank you @DrMariaNeira for highlighting our new @NRDC @docsforclimate @WIClimateHealth report on the significant health costs of fossil fuels & climate change.

Action on the climate crisis benefits health, advances equity, and reduces the crushing burden of healthcare bills.

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

The growing burden of health harms and healthcare costs from climate change are already impacting communities across the U.S. A new report finds this cost totals $820 billion and is sure to rise without swift action. Read more here ➡️ https://t.co/uIA0iFmpU1 #ClimateChangesHealth

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Fantastic reporting by @lisaelainh underscores fact that 83% of all medically important #antibiotics in U.S. agriculture are for pork and cattle production, just 3% for chicken.

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

Debt burden is a huge barrier for any new farmer, but for would-be BIPOC farmers, it just adds to a surfeit of other barriers, including the legacy of USDA racism. @YoungFarmers @saafon4farmers

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

⬇️ #FarmerFriday ⬇️

[David Wallinga, MD @Carbondoc]

Now that's a quadruple win-win we all should be able to live with. If only we stopped allowing our elections to be bought by a few self-serving mega-billionaires.

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

.@ginamccarthy46: Tackling the #ClimateCrisis creates an opportunity to create good-paying union jobs, improve public health, keep our communities safe, and advance environmental justice. #LeadersClimateSummit

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

@GRID @POTUS .@POTUS closes out #LeadersClimateSummit: “I know we can do this. I look forward to working alongside you to confront the #ClimateCrisis and build a better future for our children and grandchildren. Let's get to work.” #ClimateAction

[Maine Farmland Trust @Mainefarms]

Farming Through the Climate Emergency via @CivilEats - https://t.co/tHG5zZnn4p

[PHI: find us other places at PublicHealthInstitute @PHIdotorg]

In @CivilEats: Farming Through the Climate Emergency: ‘For those of us who tend the land, grow food, and steward ecosystems, climate change is playing out every day, every season, and in every extreme weather event.’ https://t.co/hg0qEALF7Z

[David Wallinga, MD @Carbondoc]

Imagine a world where our hard-earned dollars actually go to support the kind of food we want to eat, the air we want to breathe, and the world we want to inhabit...
https://t.co/Ez3pgM4ppQ

[David Wallinga, MD @Carbondoc]

Including in public discussions about needed actions to mitigate drivers of climate change, and to better adapt to it, as well.

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Great blog from @NRDC teamates. "For too long, agriculture has been sidelined in critical environmental, health, and justice agendas...." https://t.co/blcRLw7gg6

[David Wallinga, MD @Food_Dr]

Housing, climate, transportation, farm policy - created by public policy, informed by racism - all determine our health and our kids' health as much as, likely more than what doctors do in clinics or hospitals, as confirmed by @JeromeAdams , Pres. Trump's Surgeon General.

[David Wallinga, MD @Carbondoc]

See my blog below. The proposed reforms at USDA would not only boost equity, but also the ability of farmers to meet the challenges of climate change.

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

Farmers of color have systematically been denied fair access to land, credit, and training that are critical to farms’ survival. NRDC supports new legislation and @USDA reforms that would right those wrongs: https://t.co/orGuGUbPfW

[Healthy Food Action @HFAction]

. @JohnKerry, @GlobalEcoGuy. Unwise agriculture, forestry generate 24% of greenhouse gases, worldwide. @ProjectDrawdown uplifts 14 nature-bases solutions, including conservation ag, cutting food waste https://t.co/W05fixLtyW

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

New data published by @CCNFUK reveals that the UK is now the top subsidizer of bioenergy in Europe, primarily burning wood imported from the U.S. south that fuels environmental racism. https://t.co/ukXRHWRFkO

[NRDC 🌎🏡 @NRDC]

@US_FDA @IDSAInfo @PIDSociety @battlesuperbugs “We’ve seen how novel infections can threaten our security, our economy and our health. The global spread of antibiotic resistance is one of those threats. It’s appalling to see medically important antibiotic sales for livestock rise for the second year in a row.”—NRDC’s @food_dr