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Callum Swift

@wildmed.bsky.social
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🇮🇪 EM doctor based in Galway 🔥 Climate and Health research and advocacy with @irishdocsenv.bsky.social IAEM, IFEM and GreenED 🤟 Founder wildmed 🌱 Building local community resilience with Moycullen community growers

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
IDE and Galway Hospital GreenED support the urgent Connemara Greenway completion. Greenways are a proven, cost-effective intervention that improve physical and mental health, reduce air pollution and road danger, strengthen local economies, and expand sustainable tourism.
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
very excited to be speaking as part of the panel on this excellent webinar - Driving sustainable Emergency Care with speed and scale! Still time to register, it's free and starting at 12.30 Irish time eusem.org/webinars/104...
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Eusem - Upcoming EM Monthly Webinar: Driving Sustainable Emergency Care — With Speed and Scale
Join us for this hugely exciting EM Monthly Webinar coming up on 28th August Date: 28th August 2025 Time: 13:30pm (CEST) Location: Online (free registration required) Host: European Society ...
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/08/2025
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Get more cartoons and other funny stuff in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/h...
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Lisa McNamee @lisadangermcnamee.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Really enjoyed sitting down with @universityofgalway.bsky.social economist Professor Karen Morrissey for the latest @irishdocsenv.bsky.social podcast episode. Now available on Spotify here: open.spotify.com/episode/2Mmc...
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The Economics of Climate Change and Climate Adaptation with Professor Karyn Morrissey
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
📢 PRESS RELEASE Alongside the Dublin Commuter Coalition and other advocacy groups, we are calling on the Department of Transport to recommit to introducing a 30 km/h default speed limit in urban areas.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/07/2025
it’s wild that in canada we’re talking about building oil and gas pipelines instead of just hitting the accelerator on electrification. the longer we stay wedded to fossil fuels, the more we’re jeopardizing not just our environmental future, but our economic one too.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Given how important Israeli voices are in this context for obvious reasons: we now have Israel's two leading human rights NGOs in addition to many of its leading Holocaust and Genocide scholars calling the IDF's actions in Gaza a genocide. There is no debate. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Noah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Excellent FT piece on how the EU succumbed to Trump’s trade extortion: “Rather than join Canada and China with instant retaliation and inflict pain on US consumers and businesses, the EU — hamstrung by divergent views among its member states — chose to take the pain” on.ft.com/471fKvG
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How the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamroller
Relief at avoiding trade war is tinged with regret at not taking firmer stand from the start
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
My letter in the Irish Tines today about the ongoing catastrophe being wrought upon the Palestinians by Israel, and the profound repercussions that the failure to act will have on us all
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The Global Climate And Health Alliance @gchalliance.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
⚡️Historic! International Court of Justice rules: 👉Climate crisis = health crisis 👉Failure to act = failure to protect life. "Health workers & advocates now have powerful legal backing to demand bold climate action rooted in justice.” said @jenimiller.bsky.social ➕ bit.ly/3GZDdCY #ClimateICJAO
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The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis - International Court of Justice Ruling Reaction from Health Community
The International Court of Justice has delivered a historic affirmation: the climate crisis is a health crisis—and failure to act is a failure to protect life."
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23/07/2025
Healthy environment is a human right, top UN court rules in landmark climate case
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Healthy environment is a human right, top UN court rules in landmark climate case
‘This is the start of a new era of climate accountability at a global level’ - Greenpeace
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 21/07/2025
We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
It's time to prioritise people, not cars. It's time to make transport a source of health and wellbeing. #SustainableTransport #ActiveTransport
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
After almost 2 years of refusing to use the word “genocide” The NY Times publishes this now that the slaughter of Gaza is in its final stages. Get ready for loads of revisionist history from Corp News on the Gaza genocide just like with the invasion of Iraq. And coming soon, the climate emergency.
OpEd by a genocide scholar stating that Israel has perpetrated a genocide in Gaza
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Awarding the UN's Francesca Albanese a Nobel Peace Prize would be powerful global recognition of her great courage in speaking out against genocide in Gaza. It would be a clear statement of utter disgust from us all. Please sign this @avaaz.org petition and share. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of Gaza
Netanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead!
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Mark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
B roll holiday pics. Italy and Switzerland showed me again that investment in cycling reaps a huge return on investment. Tourism through the roof, healthy people, lowered urban traffic, transport networks that work symbiotically and e-bikes literally everywhere. We are a decade behind already.
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Feels like the reversal of the southern oceans circulation is…a big deal? Obvs not as important as todays @irishtimes.com article on *checks notes* a sleeping passenger missing their flights lunch service @irishdocsenv.bsky.social www.icm.csic.es/en/news/chan...
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A change in the Southern Ocean structure can have climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
‘No one knows what will come to replace the international system that is currently collapsing around us, but any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself.’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
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Tara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It blows my mind that the fossil fuel industry is still allowed access to decision makers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
The savage temperatures are believed to have claimed at least three lives, including that of a small boy who is thought to have died from heatstroke while in a car in Catalonia’s Tarragona province on Tuesday afternoon.

In Palermo, Sicily, a 53-year-old woman died on Monday after fainting while walking along a street. She had reportedly suffered from a heart condition.

A 70-year-old man was reported to have drowned at a tourist resort close to Turin as intense heat gave way to storms and flash floods.

Admissions to hospital emergency units in parts of Italy have risen by 15-20% in recent days. The majority of patients are elderly people suffering from dehydration.

The heatwave, which has forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people from their homes in Turkey due to wildfires, has also forced the closure of schools in parts of France – as education unions warned the classrooms were dangerously hot for children and teachers.
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Gee, I wonder why. Maybe because they’re doing a bad job on climate.
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Government survey finds majority of the public think it's doing a bad job on climate
Just over one in seven people who responded to the survey believed that the Government is delivering a clear climate action plan.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Spot on letter by @wildmed.bsky.social! Galway’s councillors continue to hold its people hostage with their outdated approach to transport — a second ring road. The problem in Galway is not too few roads, but too many cars and too few viable alternatives.
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Can’t wait for this!
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Current heatwave expected to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales - analysis - The spike in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, scientists say, with the elderly most at risk #climatecrisis Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Current heatwave ‘likely to kill almost 600 people in England and Wales’
Surge in deaths would not be occurring without human-caused global heating, scientists say as analysis published
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Spot on letter to the editor in today's Irish Times by our very own Dr Vinnie Wall on our dysfunctional, carbon-intensive transport system and the desperate need for change!
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is how the climate crisis hits us all- if you can’t get a mortgage you can’t buy (or sell) a house, so house prices in huge swathes of developed nations plummet, causing a global financial crisis like 2008 on speed. Then a mad bottle neck for houses in relatively safer regions. Buckle up!
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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
My letter to the editor in the Irish Times today on why we ought to target one million people cycling every day instead of one million EVs on Irish roads by 2030. #ActiveTransport
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Alongside our sister organisations across the Nordic countries, we put together this short video calling for health action through climate action. Please watch it and share it!
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The Patient Earth is Sick: A Call to Action from Healthcare Professionals
YouTube video by Irish Doctor For the Environment
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Setting up "aid distribution points" and then massacring people who come to obtain food is sincerely one of the most evil things I have ever seen.
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Would be wonderful if our Irish leaders could follow suit
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TheCase.Report @thecase.report · 17/05/2025
We reflected last weekend at IEMTA ASM on 5 Seasons and 74 episodes of TCR and extended our thanks to 142 guest speakers who made it possible ❤️ Stay tuned for a ✨ conference special ✨ episode to follow 👀
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"IEA analysts highlighted that even if global oil prices fall to $40 per barrel, EVs remain cost-effective especially with home charging. This way drivers can continue saving money by switching to electric vehicles." It wasn't long ago that this wasn't considered possible.
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How EV Adoption is Reshaping Global Oil Demand: IEA's 2025 Outlook and 2030 Forecast
With rising emissions, EVs have taken over oil-powered vehicles, thereby reducing oil demand. Let's study the IEA's analysis.
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
So what’s the plan here folks we’re gonna drill baby drill then try turn down the sun before we all burn baby burn?? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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UK scientists are about to attempt to dim the Sun
The project will see scientists attempt to reduce sunlight and as a result the temperature of the earth
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This is by far and away the most important podcast episode I have ever recorded
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TheCase.Report @thecase.report · 18/04/2025
Tune in Monday as we tackle the greatest threat to Global Health of the Century ⚠️ Planet Earth is our patient and she is critically unwell, threatening the health of all life on earth 🌍 NCHDs Callum and Johnny begin the resuscitation and work hard to stabilise life as we know it 🫀 #ClimateCrisis
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This month on Climate Conversations, emergency doctors @wildmed.bsky.social and @johnnycollins.bsky.social work to resuscitate the most important patient of all—our planet—alongside the inspirational Professor Hugh Montgomery. Earth has arrived at the emergency department. There’s no time to waste.
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The Climate and Health Emergency
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.
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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Brilliant letter by our very own Dr Callum Swift in the Irish Times this morning! #ActiveTransport
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gregmartinsd.bsky.social @gregmartinsd.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Removing cars is the best way to make cities better.
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Cork Greens @corkgreens.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Irish wind farms provided 48 per cent of Ireland’s power in February, making wind the State’s leading source of electricity last month, the group said. The increased supply of wind energy also pushed the wholesale price of electricity downwards.
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Wind was State’s leading source of energy in February
New data from Wind Energy Ireland suggest February was cleanest month yet
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Lisa McNamee @lisadangermcnamee.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I absolutely loved sitting down with Dr Niamh Shaw to chat all things space, sustainability and happiness for the @irishdocsenv.bsky.social podcast. Check it out below.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Accidents down 55% and injuries down 51% since nyc congestion pricing (!!!) www.nydailynews.com/2025/02/22/c...
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Congestion pricing makes NYC safer
Just more than a month ago, crossing the chaotic streets of Manhattan with my daughter meant taking a chance with her life, especially as she’s a toddler who would rather run free. We live in the g…
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Great summary of how I’ll prepared we are for climate breakdown and how it affects health in the IT ‘weather events in Ireland pose a significant threat, not just to our quality of life, but also to the health of our population.’ www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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Opinion: This isn’t climate resilience, it’s climate suffering
Just over a week on, tens of thousands of premises are still without power and water, meaning we have tough, urgent choices to make
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the biggest challenges facing not just this government, but the next five or six Irish governments, and they are in no way prepared for it.
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Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is an incredible idea! What a way to improve the health of your workforce and communities 🙌 @irishdocsenv.bsky.social
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Nailed it
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Friends of the Earth Ireland @foeireland.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
🧵A new Ireland Thinks poll has found that 55% of voters - 59% of @Fianna Fáil voters & 55% of Fine Gael voters - want the new Government to do MORE on climate change than the last Government.🌍 (1/n) www.friendsoftheearth.ie/press/new-po...
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New poll shows Fianna Fail and Fine Gael voters want MORE climate action not less
Ireland Thinks poll shows two–thirds of Independent voters want the same or more action A new Ireland Thinks poll has found that 55% of voters want the new Government to do MORE on climate change &#82...
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Travis R. Eby @travis-robert.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I refuse to shut up about this: NYC started charging $9 to bring a car into our most transit-rich zone, the haters & trolls predicted doom, but traffic evaporated instantly and here’s Times Square tonite (even after the holiday tourists have left). For a better future, build transit & price driving!
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