Climate change, food systems and population health risks in their eco-social context - PubMed
<aside> 💡 While Vinke, Rockstrome, et al. draw parallels between the COVID-19 crisis and the climate crisis, the stark difference that came to my mind were institutions’ responsiveness to the two emergencies. The outbreak became an acute issue as governments and corporations responded quickly to it. Perhaps because it threatened “business as usual” for capitalism? Compare it to how institutions usually respond slowly (if at all) to the climate crisis at hand. “The realisation that this species, collectively, is a driver of planetary change appears too large a cognitive challenge for many people. Recognition is further delayed by a coalition of forces organized particularly by those who profit from the burning of fossil fuels, using denialism, well-known in public health circles from previous campaigns to obscure the recognition of health hazards from tobacco to asbestos” (McMichael 2). If we are to reimagine how global public health care looks through the Indigenous feminist perspectives like what Lewis et al al. advocates for, what could it looks like? What examples could we draw from communities that already look to Indigenous women’s knowledges as a healthcare model?
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