The Early Ethics of Planetary Health

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Proponents of the concept of planetary health constitute one branch of a wider movement which seeks to reorganize, and perhaps revolutionize, public health in response to global environmental problems, especially climate change. Ethics is at the center of this push for transformation. This paper explores the concept of planetary health, interrogates its central values, identifies key tensions, and articulates an agenda for future research. It proposes (first) that the planetary health movement should embrace a wide, normative vision of planetary health as opposed to a narrower, more technocratic one, and (second) that it should reorient itself so as to make its overarching normative concept “planetary flourishing”, while regarding “planetary health” as an essential, but subsidiary component.