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<h1 class="highwire-cite-title" id="page-title">Climate emergency: Treat Earth as an ancestor, not a commodity</h1>
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<span class='highwire-cite-published-year'>2023</span>;
<span class='highwire-cite-volume-issue'>383</span>
<span class='highwire-cite-doi'> doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2288">https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.p2288</a…;
<span class='highwire-cite-date'>(Published 05 October 2023)</span>
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A particular world view has bent the Earth to our whims, imposing an imagined superiority over environments and other species—and other, less privileged, humans. That world view, driven by the extractive excesses of capitalism and colonialism, continues to harm people and the planet. It treats species, natural resources, and traditional and poorer communities as commodities to be exploited and profited from.</p><p id="p-2">An alternative is to think of the Earth as “an ancestor to be held in good relation” (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2202">10.1136/bmj.p2202</a>).<a id="xref-ref-1-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-1">1</a> This is no communist manifesto. It is a reasoned reaction to a climate emergency of which we have all but lost control. The approach is to understand and absorb the values and responsibilities that Indigenous communities live by so that decision making is “conducted with a critical awareness of our place in the scheme of things and considering the impacts on all our (human and more-than-human) relatives” (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2202">10.1136/bmj.p2202</a>).<a id="xref-ref-1-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-1">1</a></p><p id="p-3">A climate emergency not of their making threatens the existence of Indigenous or traditional communities in Brazil’s Amazon (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2188">10.1136/bmj.p2188</a>), northern Canada (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2173">10.1136/bmj.p2173</a>), and New Zealand (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2202">10.1136/bmj.p2202</a> doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2215">10.1136/bmj.p2215</a>), among others.<a id="xref-ref-1-3" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-1">1</a><a id="xref-ref-2-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-2">2</a><a id="xref-ref-3-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-3">3</a><a id="xref-ref-4-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-4">4</a> It endangers a populous and perilously landscaped country, Bangladesh, where a 50 cm rise in sea level will claim a third of the country’s land mass and displace 18 million people (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2211">10.1136/bmj.p2211</a>).<a id="xref-ref-5-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-5">5</a> Yet endangered peoples and nations carry the burden of climate damage without contributing meaningfully to it (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2156">10.1136/bmj.p2156</a>).<a id="xref-ref-6-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-6">6</a> Bangladesh produces just 0.4% of global emissions of greenhouse gases.</p><p id="p-4">Evidence grows for the damaging impact of climate change. The frequency and severity of floods is increasing, and new research estimates that the risks of all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality peak around 25 days after a flood and last for up to 60 days (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj-2023-e075081">10.1136/bmj-2023-e075081</a> doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2101">10.1136/bmj.p2101</a>).<a id="xref-ref-7-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-7">7</a><a id="xref-ref-8-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-8">8</a> Another study shows the synergy of ambient fine particulate matter and ozone in worsening all cause, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality, especially in high latitude areas and during cold seasons (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj-2023-e075203">10.1136/bmj-2023-e075203</a> doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2020">10.1136/bmj.p2020</a>).<a id="xref-ref-9-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-9">9</a><a id="xref-ref-10-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-10">10</a></p><p id="p-5">One pragmatic response is to pursue legal processes, such as demanding recording of environmental hazards on death certificates (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2162">10.1136/bmj.p2162</a>), or seeking redress for government inaction from an international court of human rights (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2258">10.1136/bmj.p2258</a>).<a id="xref-ref-11-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-11">11</a><a id="xref-ref-12-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-12">12</a> Clinicians have a pivotal role in tackling climate change (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj-2023-e076963">10.1136/bmj-2023-e076963</a>),<a id="xref-ref-13-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-13">13</a> and many are already engaged in championing and implementing strategies to make hospitals and clinical practice more sustainable (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2262">10.1136/bmj.p2262</a> doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p1524">10.1136/bmj.p1524</a> doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2234">10.1136/bmj.p2234</a>).<a id="xref-ref-14-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-14">14</a><a id="xref-ref-15-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-15">15</a><a id="xref-ref-16-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-16">16</a></p><p id="p-6">The economic arguments for action on climate and sustainability become clearer by the day (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2236">10.1136/bmj.p2236</a>).<a id="xref-ref-17-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-17">17</a> Why not, as the World Health Organization’s Maria Neira argues, see the climate emergency as the ultimate health opportunity?<a id="xref-ref-18-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-18">18</a> With that mindset we might take action not only in healthcare settings but in other sectors that influence the health of people and planet, such as transport and housing (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2211">10.1136/bmj.p2211</a> doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2235">10.1136/bmj.p2235</a>).<a id="xref-ref-5-2" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-5">5</a><a id="xref-ref-19-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-19">19</a> We might realise that investing in local communities reduces healthcare costs (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2239">10.1136/bmj.p2239</a>).<a id="xref-ref-20-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-20">20</a> We might then have a better appreciation of the influence of climate change on a person with asthma walking in a polluted city (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2144">10.1136/bmj.p2144</a>) or someone struggling in hot weather with the adverse effects of antipsychotic drugs (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2199">10.1136/bmj.p2199</a>).<a id="xref-ref-21-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-21">21</a><a id="xref-ref-22-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-22">22</a></p><p id="p-7">We might understand too that rich, polluting, extracting economies must accept their global responsibility to reform and their obligations over loss and damage caused to nations that are poor, climate damaged, and exploited (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2182">10.1136/bmj.p2182</a>).<a id="xref-ref-23-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-23">23</a> The opportunity, if there is one, lies in the World Health Organization’s “One Health” approach (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2177">10.1136/bmj.p2177</a>), frugal innovation (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj-2023-076381">10.1136/bmj-2023-076381</a>), the power of communities (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2202">10.1136/bmj.p2202</a>), political will to reshape our world (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2244">10.1136/bmj.p2244</a>), and even “friluftsliv,” a Norwegian word implying communing with nature (doi:<a href="/lookup/doi/10.1136/bmj.p2249">10.1136/bmj.p2249</a>).<a id="xref-ref-1-4" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-1">1</a><a id="xref-ref-24-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-24">24</a><a id="xref-ref-25-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-25">25</a><a id="xref-ref-26-1" class="xref-bibr" href="#ref-26">26</a><a id="xref-ref-27-1" 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