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Chapter 28 - Reframing Global Health Ethics Using Ecological, Indigenous, and Regenerative Lenses

from Section 5 - The Importance of Including Cross-Cultural Perspectives and the Need for Dialogue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Mark D. Hathaway ,
Blake Poland  and
Angela Mashford-Pringle
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

Human health is utterly dependent on the well-being of the wider Earth community (McMichael, 2014; Díaz & Brondizio, 2019). Without clean air and water, livable climatic conditions, and nutritious food, humans cannot survive, let alone thrive. Already, for many, these necessities are increasingly scarce, if not out of reach. Moreover, ecosystems – and the human communities that depend on them – are rapidly deteriorating. Several key boundaries that delineate the safe operating space for humanity have already been exceeded – particularly biodiversity loss and climate change – and the limits in other areas such as ocean acidification are rapidly being approached (Rockström et al., 2009).

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Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 358 - 369
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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