Coupled system approach to healthy earth environments and individual human resilience

Sornette，Didier; Wu，Ke

2023-03-01

COVID-19 Holistic system approach Individual responsibility Public health Resilience System

English

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has stressed our social organizations, health care systems and economies at a level not experienced since WWII or the last “Spanish flu” pandemic of 1918. This shock provides a real-life test of the resilience of human societies and of individuals, challenging our understanding and level of preparation. While hurried coercive non-pharmaceutical measures and vaccinations were the main responses, for the future, we propose a coupled double-system approach linking efforts to improve both human well-being and Earth environmental health. Concretely, this means linking (i) the build-up of individual health resilience using holistic medical system perspectives applied to each person with (ii) efforts to depollute and achieve more healthy Earth environments that are intrinsic pillars of humans’ health and wealth. The push to fight Earth ecological damages towards environmental sustainability should be rethought as being motivated by recovering an ecosystem in which each own personal biological ecosystem (i.e., each person's homeostatic balance) can strive again. We propose to prioritize Human-Environment-Health initiatives for depolluting the environment and of our immune systems, as well as improving individual responsibility and resilience.

10.1016/j.horiz.2023.100050

Sustainable Horizons

5

First ; Corresponding

2-s2.0-85151893336

Scopus

2772-7378

Institute of Risk Analysis,Prediction and Management (Risks-X),Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech),Shenzhen,China

Sornette，Didier,Wu，Ke. Coupled system approach to healthy earth environments and individual human resilience. 2023-03-01.