[Correspondence] Planetary health: a new sociopolitical framework is urgently needed

We welcome the Lecture by Samuel S Myers (Dec 23, 2017, p 2860)1 on planetary health. Paul J Crutzen assigned the term Anthropocene to “the present, in many ways human-dominated, geological epoch”.2 The capacity of mankind to shape its own habitat is a major environmental force. More than 15 000 scientists proclaimed that urgent changes are needed to avoid the consequences of humanity's impact on the environment and reverse t he trend of collapsing the delicate planetary health.3
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research