Dr Kim Loo, is a GP at Riverstone Family Medical Practice and NSW Chair of Doctors for Environment Australia. She says the compounding, cascading disasters have devastated her patients in Western Sydney - “this is a health crisis and our policy makers and politicians need to understand this and act on it.”

Dr Kim Loo says this is one of the reasons why doctors are active in the climate movement, because they see the ongoing impact climate disasters have on their patients.“My patients have felt kind of hammered and really unsettled for the past two years already. Because the people who were flooded this time had the same disaster last year, for two years in a row, they've had to evacuate. And part of that is we've had the heat waves and the smoke with COVID in between, and its ongoing, until now”

“So it is cascading, compounding disasters and politicians are still not cognisant of it. Saying something is ‘unprecedented’ does not mean we can't be prepared for it."