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Imagining a habitable planet through food and health
Mark L Wahlqvist1,2,3,4,5
1Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia. mark.wahlqvist@gmail.com.
Background And Objectives:
Whether and how it might be possible to imagine a habitable planet through food and health.
Methods:
Reflection on childhood happenstances, sociodemographic circumstances, educational opportunities, persons of influence and lifetime experiences insofar as they might have shaped a view of the past, present and future world as the sole rational home of us all. Confirmation of these notions by personal, kindred, and other contemporary records and publications.
Results:
The need to live with uncertainty and an appreciation of connectedness with things animate and inanimate; and for this to be belief, identity, reason and professional imprimatur. That these things have unwittingly informed a near lifetime of interest and enthusiasm for how food and health systems are best served by socioecological approaches.
Conclusions:
That we are socioecological beings with a destiny dependent on reconciling ourselves, as earthlings, as to how well we keep our place in the cosmos habitable. To that end we must dream and work.
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