Can we solve the climate crisis without confronting global inequities?
A recent study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA found that white residents in the USA produce more climate pollution than black or hispanic residents, but black and hispanic people are exposed to more air pollution.
And that is just the USA! Think about the global inequities in the "haves" and the "have nots".
And how are we going to lift people out of poverty without making the climate crisis even worse?
If you are a resident in a wealthy country, is it your responsibility to address both problems at once? And what would that look like in terms of national and international policy?
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Environmentalism and Sustainability in Health and Healthcare
Ecologism has as its basic principle, to protect the natural environment and make progress sustainable.
This principle applies to many different aspects of life. When referring to the human being, to the human species, from environmentalism we propose protect two aspects: the environment (the surroundings), and the internal environment, taking care of the organism. It is studied how to improve the environment and how the bad-environment (Currently our environment is on many occasions an environment that can harm) and affects us and can cause diseases.
We can call this specialty within environmentalism and health, ECOHEALTH.
It is an important task in health prevention, and a specialty to be included in Public Health departments. But also the ecological principles are applicable to the way of treating the diseases, to the criteria that we can use to carry out the task of healing. The environmentalism has an obvious and direct application in diseases of toxic origin, but now we are referring to how to act in all other diseases, be they infectious, endocrine, neurological, etc. Act in an ecological and sustainable way in health, consists of promoting non-aggressive or less aggressive treatment modes. aggressive for the body, for this reason we promote alternative medical criteria, unconventional therapies. This way of curing diseases we can call ECOSANITY. It is a new criterion to incorporate in health policies. It is a more “healthy” way of practicing healing, which gives priority to the remedies that are more “healthy”, that is, those that do not harm more than they cure, very careful in the doses and the personalization of the treatment in each patient taking into account count all your pathologies.