Healthy living on a healthy planet
Our lifestyle is making us ill and destroying the natural life-support systems. The vision of “healthy living on a healthy planet” focuses on the inseparability of human health and nature, and thus on an extended understanding of health.
Overview
More about this topic
Human health and the health of all living beings depends on a “healthy” Earth with functioning, resilient and efficient ecosystems and a stable climate. What we must do is explore and implement development pathways that do justice to both humans and nature. This requires international cooperation and a form of global urgency governance. Natural life-support systems must be pre-served, and health systems enabled to exploit their transformative potential. Education and science play a key role in making the vision a reality and in planning ahead for overall conditions that make healthy lifestyles possible while simultaneously protecting nature.
More on the Subject
Healthy living on a healthy planet
Healthy living on a healthy planet
