This month's cover features artwork by Armaan Ahmad, a 14-year-old student at the Sunbeam Lahartara School in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The work, a commentary on the health effects of pollution, was created for a global project called "Turn it Around! Flashcards for Education Futures" in which youth artists and writers designed climate crisis-related flash cards that were given to "policymakers, politicians, and teachers to challenge them to think, see, and act in new ways." (Visit https://turnitaroundcards.org to see the entire collection of flash cards.) "There is enough on the Earth for man's need, but never enough for man's greed," says Ahmad. "[The Earth] gives us tons but gets nothing. . . . Sooner or later, we have to pay the cost."
In this month's AJN Reports, "Decarbonizing Health Care," senior editor Corinne McSpedon discusses how climate change is negatively affecting human health worldwide-and how nurses can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the health care industry. Health facilities, medical product manufacturing, and the supply chain are significant sources of emissions globally. Reporting on a recent policy dialogue hosted by the American Academy of Nursing's Expert Panel on Environmental and Public Health-"Nursing Leadership in Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector"-McSpedon shares insights from nursing leaders on what nurses can do to influence policy and address the climate crisis "at every level of the health care system."-Diane Szulecki, editor