A recent study claims that carbon emissions should be considered at the "population level" when determining which heart surgeries to perform.
The July study, published in the European Heart Journal, discussed the alleged effects on climate of open surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), which doctors perform in the operating room (OR) or the cath lab (CATH).
The researchers created a “model for carbon footprints, measured in kilograms of CO2 equivalents … following ISO14067 standards, based on primary data (materials, procedures, energies, in the pre-operative, operative, and post-operative setting).” More simply, researchers wanted to determine the “carbon footprint” of certain heart procedures. This was the conclusion:
The carbon footprint of SAVR is about twice as high as those from OR–TAVR or CATH–TAVR. These findings should potentially be considered when making population level decisions and guidelines moving into the future.
Or how about this — there is no climate crisis, carbon is the necessary building block of life, and humans are far more important than endangered tree frogs. When deciding which types of surgery to give people, “climate” shouldn’t be a factor.
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That’s really the key issue here — the lack of value for individual human life. As someone with multiple family members who have received heart surgeries, it’s terrifying to think the care they were offered could have been based on foolish standards like ideological climate obsession.
The same leftists who scream with horror that the long-tailed kangaroo rat’s population is dwindling demand that we develop standards of care for humans based on “climate change.” America is an exceptional country because we were founded on the principle that God created every man with certain unalienable rights, among which is the right to life. We are at our worst as a society when we turn from that principle and at our best when we honor it.
Every human life is infinitely precious. That is the American ethic. The Marxist ethic is to devalue life (except the all-wise elites’ lives), as we see with the study on cardiovascular surgery and climate. No one should use the fake climate crisis to decide what surgery patients can receive. The study might be from Europe, but the same pernicious ideas are rampant in the American left. We must guard against this mentality in our medical practice, in our society, and in our policymaking. Humans are more important than their “carbon footprint.”
Editor's note: Some parts of this story have been changed because they contained misleading information.
