Winsford GP warns of global crisis as lives are under threat

Dr Kathy Fallon spent her annual leave yesterday supporting an Extinction Rebellion demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament.

Winsford GP Dr Kathy Fallon joined XR doctors and health professionals to warn of lives under threat through climate change

The Weaver Vale GP took part in Stop Ecocide: We Want To Live.

Dr Fallon said: "Approximately 100 corpses lay down when the action was started by the sombre ringing of a bell by the undertaker. Each corpse was covered by a white sheet on which a single flower and a death certificate were placed by one of the doctors.

100 corpses lay down outside Westminster yesterday as XR doctors and health professionals mounted a climate change protest

"The death certificates each recorded a different type of climate change related death such as starvation due to drought, or asthma due to pollution, death from disease or drowning in a flood.

"As a doctor it is my duty to warn of this growing global public health crisis which is affecting us all.

Winsford GP Dr Kathy Fallon was one of the speakers at yesterday's XR health professionals demonstration in Westminster

"Today I stood not as a protestor but as a protector of the earth and my community."

Dr Fallon joined six nurses and doctors to read out statements about the seriousness of the threats the world is facing.

"I read out a piece about the degradation of the soil and crop failures leading to famine," said Dr Fallon.

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"In 2017 Michael Gove, then the environment secretary, warned that the UK was 30 to 40 years away from 'the fundamental eradication of soil fertility'. We have encouraged a type of farming which has damaged the earth."

Last year the United Nations warned that climate change threatens the world's food supply, saying that land and water resources are being exploited at 'unprecedented rates'.

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Dr Fallon said: "Combined with climate change this is putting dire pressure on the ability of humanity to feed itself. Half a billion people already live in places turning into desert and soil is being lost between 10-100 times faster than it is forming.

"Climate change will make those threats even worse, as extreme weather disrupts and shrinks the global food supply. Already more than 10 per cent of the world's population remains undernourished."