We are starting to experience the effects of climate change; as increasingly extreme and destructive weather events strike and with the world in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is more and more talk in the media about the link between the destruction of ecosystems, biodiversity loss and health emergencies caused by infectious disease epidemics and pandemics.
With the realisation that human life and health depend on the health of the planet, ecosystems, plants and animals comes a growing understanding that it is no longer enough to try to solve environmental problems in an isolated way with piecemeal technological solutions; we need approaches that take this interdependence into account and that bring about a fundamental change in our relationship with the elements that form the basis of life on our planet.