On 17 July 2022, amid a lethal UK heatwave, four doctors and two nurses cracked windows at JP Morgan’s European HQ in Canary Wharf, the world’s largest financier of fossil fuels, to expose a driver of what health professionals increasingly recognise as an unfolding and irreversible public health and ecological emergency.
Health workers have a duty not only to care for individual patients, but to protect population health and to sound the alarm when state or corporate actions place lives, health systems and the conditions for life at risk.
At their first trial in June 2024 the jury refused to find the medics guilty
The timeline below traces JP Morgan’s public climate claims alongside its ongoing expansion of fossil fuel financing and rising emissions; the resulting, escalating health and ecological harms of the climate crisis; and the people‑centred actions Doctors for XR (later renamed Health for XR) have taken since 2020 to document these harms, call those in power to account, and defend public and planetary health.
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The videos below were filmed at Health for XR’s protests at JP Morgan offices and other locations from 2019 until the current day. They are an introduction as to why so many of us have chosen to join HXR and feel compelled to act in order to address the climate crisis. You can find out more about these HERE
Doctors for XR undertake climate and health protest outside JPMorgan offices:
“I’m a doctor, a GP and a mum to 3 children. JPMorgan must stop investing in fossil fuels if we want our children to have a future”
Sixty doctors, nurses and other health professionals stage a die-in protest outside JP Morgan’s headquarters to highlight their investment in fossil fuels.
“I’m here today because I have a duty of care to my patients”
Doctors for XR health professionals forcibly removed by security as they protest for the climate and health at JPMorgan offices.
“I’m here because I’m worried about the health of my patients… …It is really important that we stop fossil fuel pollution”
Doctors glue themselves to government buildings protesting climate inaction
“Ive done all the usual – writing letters, signing petitions and so on, but things still go getting worse and worse”
“I feel I have no choice but to act”
Doctors march across London to highlight the climate and health emergency
“We see people dying in their millions”…heat, air pollution, food insecurity, infectious diseases..
Health professionals and citizens perform ‘climate inquests’ outside JP Morgan offices and in locations across the UK
“It is so important we come together to understand this is a health emergency”
The videos below show senior health figures explaining why they believe health professionals should become environmental defenders and engage in non-violent social protest to demand a stop to all new fossil fuels and to protect people from climate & ecological breakdown
Dr Fiona Godlee, previous Editor in Chief of the leading British Medical Journal calls for end to new fossil fuel investment:
“This has become, sadly, part of core activity for doctors & nurses to speak up about climate change…because they are compelled to protest in protection of their patients and the public.”
Dr Richard Horton, Editor of the world-renowned medical journal The Lancet describes the climate crisis as “the most important existential crisis facing the human species”
“All health professionals have a responsibility, an obligation, to engage in all kinds of non-violent social protest to address the climate emergency”
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Health for Extinction Rebellion (previously Doctors for XR) is a collective of doctors, nurses and other health professionals who recognise our professional responsibility to demand and support appropriate, proportionate and urgent action to protect our patients and the public from the escalating health harms of the climate and ecological emergency.
We hope you will support us in our work and, if you a health professional, that you will join us. We also have active regional groups in Wales, Scotland, London, Brighton and the SW, NE and NW of England – you will be sent information about your local group when you join.
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HXR performed a Climate and Health press conference outside Parliament, demonstrating how we need our government to finally acknowledge the urgency of the climate and health crises and announce crucial new policies to address these
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