Failing to address racism: A commentary on “From Florence to Fossil Fuels: Nursing Has Always Been About Environmental Health”

“From Florence to Fossil Fuels: Nursing Has Always Been About Environmental Health” (McCauley, 2021), provides readers with a historical perspective of nursing's role in environmental health, stresses the danger of climate change, sheds light on heath disparities associate with poor environmenta l conditions, and puts forth a call to action for more nursing education and research in this area of health. We do not disagree that climate change is a threat to health, environmental health disparities exist, or that more education and research is needed in environmental health.
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