Safeguarding planetary health for southeast Asia's future children.
Safeguarding planetary health for southeast Asia's future children.
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10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00068-7
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2022-04
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Lee E
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Mahmood J;Guinto RR;Lacey-Hall O;Faiesall M;Poppema S;Lee E
在我们继续应对正在发生的新冠肺炎大流行的同时，过去几个月也暴露出我们地球集体健康的糟糕状况，包括在东南亚。在2021年联合国气候变化大会(COP26)召开几周后，马来西亚遭遇了前所未有的严重洪灾1，而菲律宾再次遭遇超级台风袭击，造成数百人死亡，数十万人流离失所。2 2022年初，斯德哥尔摩复原力中心宣布，除了气候变化、土地利用变化、生物地球化学流动中断和生物多样性丧失外，第五个行星边界已经被突破--化学污染，特别是塑料污染。3东南亚是塑料污染的主要来源，因为前五大塑料污染国家中的大多数都位于该地区。4此外，作为生物多样性热点，东南亚的丛林为另一次潜在的人畜共患疫情提供了理想的条件，从源头上预防未来的大流行至关重要。5应对这些环环相扣的全球健康挑战，需要采取行动解决人类造成的政治、社会、经济和环境原因及其可怕的人道主义后果。为了增进人类的健康和福祉，特别是子孙后代的健康和福祉，地球日益衰落的状况再也不能被忽视。2021年，我们，东南亚在地球健康科学、人道主义、高等教育和可持续商业方面的领导者，联手建立了Sunway行星健康中心。该中心的总部设在马来西亚的新威大学。我们的愿景是创造一个安全、公正的世界，让人类和地球的健康和谐发展，我们希望通过教育、研究、公众参与和政策影响来实现这一目标。
While we continue to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the past months have also revealed the sorry state of our collective planetary health, including in southeast Asia. Weeks after the 2021 UN climate change conference (known as COP26), Malaysia experienced intense flooding at a scale that has never been seen before, 1 while the Philippines was once more hit by a super typhoon that killed hundreds and displaced a hundred thousand more. 2 In the beginning of 2022, the Stockholm Resilience Centre announced that a fifth planetary boundary has already been breached—chemical pollution, particularly plastic—in addition to climate change, land use change, disrupted biogeochemical flows, and biodiversity loss. 3 Southeast Asia is central source of plastic pollution, as most of the top five plastic-polluting countries are located in the region. 4 Furthermore, as a biodiversity hotspot, the jungles of southeast Asia offer ideal conditions for another potential zoonotic outbreak, and it is vital to prevent future pandemics at the source. 5 Tackling these interlocking planetary health challenges requires action to address human-generated political, social, economic, and environmental causes and their dire humanitarian consequences. To advance the health and wellbeing of humanity, especially of succeeding generations, the declining state of planet Earth can no longer be ignored.In 2021, we, southeast Asian leaders in planetary health science, humanitarianism, higher education, and sustainable business, joined forces to establish the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health. The centre is based in Sunway University in Malaysia. Our vision is to create a safe and just world where the health of humans and the planet thrive in harmony, and we hope to this goal through education, research, public engagement, and policy influence.