Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 16/09/2025IDE 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. 1147
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 28/08/2025very 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...eusem.orgEusem - Upcoming EM Monthly Webinar: Driving Sustainable Emergency Care — With Speed and ScaleJoin 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 ... 000
Reposted by Callum SwiftThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 07/08/2025Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons Get more cartoons and other funny stuff in your inbox: www.newyorker.com/newsletter/h... 181869353
Reposted by Callum SwiftLisa McNamee @lisadangermcnamee.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Really 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...open.spotify.comThe Economics of Climate Change and Climate Adaptation with Professor Karyn MorrisseyClimate Conversations · Episode 083
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Because they prioritise people over cars. While Ireland continues to prioritise cars over people, people will continue to die 010
Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish 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. 13316
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Well put! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social talks about this in his incredible book ‘the secret doctrine’. Neoliberal cheerleaders dropped the name of their ideology and just started pretending that it is simply reality and it worked a treat, most people have internalised the doctrine 030
Reposted by Callum SwiftParis Marx @parismarx.com · 27/07/2025it’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. 8410113
Reposted by Callum Swiftelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Given 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:... 18138
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 28/07/2025So we have just bent the knee and kissed trumps ring, agreeing to buy billions of dollars of oil and weapons off America?? What an absolute disgrace FFS 🤬🤬🤬 010
Reposted by Callum SwiftNoah Barkin @noahbarkin.bsky.social · 27/07/2025Excellent 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/471fKvGon.ft.comHow the EU succumbed to Trump’s tariff steamrollerRelief at avoiding trade war is tinged with regret at not taking firmer stand from the start 1216683
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 24/07/2025My 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 083
Reposted by Callum SwiftThe 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 #ClimateICJAObit.lyThe Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis - International Court of Justice Ruling Reaction from Health CommunityThe 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." 0109
Reposted by Callum SwiftThe Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 23/07/2025Healthy environment is a human right, top UN court rules in landmark climate caseirishtimes.comHealthy 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 051
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 23/07/2025That’s literally the point of health warnings on products. To warn people off buying things that damage their health. Some things are more important than the shareholder returns of massive corporations 000
Reposted by Callum SwiftUNRWA @unrwa.org · 21/07/2025We 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. 12657546
Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 21/07/2025It's time to prioritise people, not cars. It's time to make transport a source of health and wellbeing. #SustainableTransport #ActiveTransport 45919
Reposted by Callum SwiftAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 15/07/2025After 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. 1545497
Reposted by Callum SwiftEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 16/07/2025Awarding 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/...secure.avaaz.orgNobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and the doctors of GazaNetanyahu just nominated Trump for the Nobel peace prize. Let’s show that the world thinks - Francesca and Gaza doctors deserve it instead! 017878
Reposted by Callum SwiftMark Sutton @marksuttonbike.bsky.social · 09/07/2025B 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. 2447
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Feels 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...icm.csic.esA change in the Southern Ocean structure can have climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar 142
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Gutted we didn’t know about this when planning the first Galway Clinate Collective meet-up, it’s clashing🙈. Looking forward to the next one! 210
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...theguardian.comThe destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa BayoumiThe 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 043
Reposted by Callum SwiftTara Connolly @taraconnolly.bsky.social · 01/07/2025It blows my mind that the fossil fuel industry is still allowed access to decision makers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... 2377
Reposted by Callum SwiftOla Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Gee, I wonder why. Maybe because they’re doing a bad job on climate.thejournal.ieGovernment survey finds majority of the public think it's doing a bad job on climateJust over one in seven people who responded to the survey believed that the Government is delivering a clear climate action plan. 3223
Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Spot 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. 14019
Reposted by Callum SwiftDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Current 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/...theguardian.comCurrent 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 9176118
Reposted by Callum SwiftMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Like 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. 256142625465
Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Spot 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! 13312
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This 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! 010
Reposted by Callum SwiftOla Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 16/06/2025My 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 39223
Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Alongside 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!youtu.beThe Patient Earth is Sick: A Call to Action from Healthcare ProfessionalsYouTube video by Irish Doctor For the Environment 04018
Reposted by Callum SwiftJason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Setting 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. 711820504
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Would be wonderful if our Irish leaders could follow suit 010
Reposted by Callum SwiftTheCase.Report @thecase.report · 17/05/2025We 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 👀 021
Reposted by Callum SwiftJustin 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.carboncredits.comHow EV Adoption is Reshaping Global Oil Demand: IEA's 2025 Outlook and 2030 ForecastWith rising emissions, EVs have taken over oil-powered vehicles, thereby reducing oil demand. Let's study the IEA's analysis. 2349
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 28/04/2025So 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...independent.co.ukUK scientists are about to attempt to dim the SunThe project will see scientists attempt to reduce sunlight and as a result the temperature of the earth 010
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 21/04/2025This is by far and away the most important podcast episode I have ever recorded 020
Reposted by Callum SwiftTheCase.Report @thecase.report · 18/04/2025Tune 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 064
Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 21/04/2025This 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.open.spotify.comThe Climate and Health EmergencyClimate Conversations · Episode 094
Reposted by Callum SwiftBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Air 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. 4242961286
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 17/04/2025The roundabout actually features as a gap on their map. ‘Come enjoy our wonderful safe cycle lane and magically skip over the dangerous roundabout because we can’t be bothered to make it safe for cyclists’ 010
Callum Swift @wildmed.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I think it’s appalling 😂😭😭. As someone who had to use it every day to cycle to work it’s very frustrating. For example their big bold line in that picture involves a notoriously dangerous roundabout with no safe means for navigating on a bike 120
Reposted by Callum SwiftIrish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Brilliant letter by our very own Dr Callum Swift in the Irish Times this morning! #ActiveTransport 011422