Climate change is driving a public mental health crisis that disproportionately, and unjustly,
affects the world's young people. Despite the growing evidence for harm to the next
generation, the medical community has largely been hesitant to take the next step and act
on the evidence. We propose that the medical community has a responsibility to do more.

… We argue that the medical profession must adopt a broader conception of health and its
determinants, or a ‘social lens’, if it is to move beyond rhetoric to action. … We offer the
beginnings of a framework for action in the context of climate change and youth mental
health, before calling for our profession to re-examine its role, and its very purpose, to better
address the climate crisis. … Much as climate justice aims to reveal the unequal spread of
the climate crisis across populations, medical justice acknowledges the complicated world …