Abstract
The climate crisis is a major public health ethics problem that needs to be addressed using a broad set of ethical tools to analyse the manifold ethical issues. To enrich the discourse, we suggest to bridge the gap between environmental ethics and public health ethics. A planetary health ethics could help to develop a holistic perspective and create awareness about the multiple ethically relevant interactions between humans and the environment.
Zusammenfassung
Die Klimakrise ist ein aus gesundheitsethischer Sicht komplexes Problem, das mit verschiedenen ethischen Instrumenten angegangen werden muss. Um den Diskurs zu bereichern, sollten wir die Kluft zwischen Public Health-Ethik und Umweltethik überbrücken. Eine planetare Gesundheitsethik könnte helfen, eine ganzheitliche Perspektive zu entwickeln und ein Bewusstsein für die vielen ethisch relevanten Wechselwirkungen zwischen Mensch und Umwelt zu schaffen.
Autorenerklärung
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