An alternative perspective on the challenges facing science today
PART 4: PRIORITISING PLANETARY HEALTH Today many health policy analyses recognise the health issues occurring in response to climate change, such as the spread of tropical diseases and human migration due to the detrimental effect on resources. Health organisations seek to develop healthcare systems to cope with increasing demands that will emanate due to worsening climate change. However, as we have seen in the last three posts, there are many man-made issues that are causing both serious human health and environmental issues simultaneously and thus contributing to climate change. Nature has an abundance of complex mechanisms to deal with any challenge from pest control to natural disasters, but human manipulation of these systems has had a detrimental effect on our environment and is having a knock-on effect on us and threatening humanity’s future. We have already learnt so much from nature from discovering medicines to building aircraft inspired by the aerodynamics of bird flight. We must continue to learn from nature to find solutions for our planet’s future.
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AuthorDr. Anusha Seneviratne This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Categories
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