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  • Environmental ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Planetary health

Background:

  • Contemporary bioethics often responds to crises like COVID-19 with routine approaches, risking a focus on immediate issues.
  • This reactive stance can limit our ability to address complex, long-term global challenges such as ecosystem degradation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for a shift in bioethics towards a more ecologically informed approach.
  • To propose the development of a "planetary health ethics" that integrates environmental sustainability.
  • To highlight the potential of Indigenous knowledge systems in shaping this new ethical framework.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of current bioethical practices.
  • Exploration of the relationship between global ecosystem health and human well-being.
  • Examination of Indigenous knowledge practices and philosophical ecologies as potential resources.

Main Results:

  • Current bioethics risks being "prisoners of the proximate," failing to address systemic environmental crises.
  • A "planetary health ethics" or "ecologized bioethics" is proposed as a necessary evolution.
  • Indigenous knowledge offers valuable perspectives for sustainable co-habitation and environmental stewardship.

Conclusions:

  • Bioethics must evolve to confront global ecological degradation and collapse.
  • Adopting a planetary health ethics is crucial for achieving secure and sustainable co-habitation.
  • Ethicists and health professionals must become public advocates for environmental sustainability, with the COVID-19 pandemic serving as a catalyst for this transformation.