School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, 28 Division St, ON, K7L 3N6, Kingston, Canada.
Department of Geography, Western University, 1151 Richmond Street, London, ON, N6A 5C2, Canada.
Can J Public Health. 2020 Dec;111(6):831-835. doi: 10.17269/s41997-020-00437-9. Epub 2020 Nov 2.
The volume of calls for governments and public health officials to take concerted action on climate change has become almost deafening. Public health researchers and practitioners need to look beyond what we know about the health impacts of climate change, to what we are doing as our part in contributing to holding global temperature rise to under 1.5°C. This commentary reflects on the common threads across the articles of a special section in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Public Health, "Moving on IPCC 1.5°C", which sought examples of bold research and action advancing climate change mitigation and adaptation. Among the articles, there are signs that the public health community is gaining momentum in confronting the climate crisis. Three critical lessons emerged: the need for institutional change from the top of public health, the essential power of community in intersectoral action on climate change preparedness, and the importance of centring Indigenous wisdom to decolonize colonial legacy systems. We encourage readers to move public health research and practice from an instrumental relationship with nature to one of reverence and sacred reciprocity.
呼吁政府和公共卫生官员就气候变化采取协调一致行动的呼声越来越高。公共卫生研究人员和从业人员不能仅仅停留在了解气候变化对健康的影响上，而应该审视我们在为将全球升温幅度控制在 1.5°C 以下所做的贡献。本评论反映了本期《加拿大公共卫生杂志》“推进 1.5°C 目标”特刊中一系列文章的共同主题，这些文章旨在寻找推进气候变化缓解和适应的大胆研究和行动的范例。在这些文章中，有迹象表明公共卫生界正在为应对气候危机而积蓄力量。有三个关键的经验教训：需要从公共卫生的最高层进行体制变革，社区在气候变化准备的跨部门行动中的重要作用，以及将土著智慧置于中心地位以消除殖民遗留系统的重要性。我们鼓励读者将公共卫生研究和实践从与自然的工具性关系转变为敬畏和神圣的互惠关系。
