Cassandra was a priestess in ancient Troy who persistently prophesied the fall of the city and was vilified for her actions. Criticism, counter criticism and point scoring is not helpful-there is enough evidence to indicate that action is necessary now.

Global warming is real, the potential consequences catastrophic for human life on earth.

Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902-the Father of modern Pathology and one of the founders of Social Medicine said, “All Medicine is politics”

The task is to persuade people, politicians and the market-place, not to terrify or to hector but to sit down and work out what to do, when ,how and at what cost