
People & Planet is just a mutual ecosystem.
The Lost World.
A long and well established connective tissue in the way I talk and write, and think about health & fitness is that we are all connected through this global ecosystem we all share.
Which is why I have over the years pointed out that living in a sustainable way is ultimately all about health. Individual health & planetary health. People that are opting to eat shit just isn't healthy.
Neither from a planetary or individual perspective.
Just as how healthy fit people that´s living unsustainable, just isn't healthy living people either.
Yes, there are multitudes of degrees of health and living a healthy fit life.
But that´s so obvious that there is no need to point that one out. Life is after all, full of shades of gray, black, white, and whatever.
And something is always infinitely better than nothing. A simple statement that holds equally true no matter if we are talking about sustainable choices, clean energy or eating vegetarian food and lifting weights.
2050AD, the ugliness of humanity.
[ Oceans run the risk of having more total weight of plastic than fish.]

But the point of my own core concept is that in order to truly be a healthy person you have to eat, train and live in a healthy and sustainable way that promotes the well-being and health of both you and the planet and all its other humans and animal species. You will certainly never have to be perfect in any of the pillars that make up the sum of your health and life. No one is.
But you can also never escape that its all connected, every little piece of life down here on this planet is entwined and connected with everything else.
Is the air dirty where you live? Well, guess what, that will always and forever reduce your health, and it will continue to do so until you change the quality of the air in your area.
Because we are all sharing the same air and water and soil. And pollution always impact the entirety of our global ecosystem. Bad city air causes millions of diabetes cases each year, on top of alzheimers, cancer, respiratory issues, premature death and so forth.
And as such, our own individual health and prosperity depends on the health of the entire system. So, if you are a conscious person that cares about the health of the forest and all its lovely critters, but you still eat shit and remain sedentary, drink, smoke and stuff yourself full of too much food ( good or bad ), that´s you still harming the planet and yourself the same way. In other words, you are not half as sustainable and healthy as you would like to consider yourself.
And if you are the opposite, a healthy fit person which eat healthily and keep fit in the gym and the dirt road but you drive a big ass fossil fuel gulping monster vehicle, pollute and look the other way when it comes down to how the energy you use is actually made and you could care less about water levels and eating vegetarian food because you just love your red meat.
Well, that´s you still harming your own health ( and mine ) both directly (red meat causes a multitude of bad health issues) and indirectly due to the way you are also choosing to harm the health of the entire planet ( red meat is a major driver of pollution and unsustainability)
You see, your body is an almost closed off ecosystem.
But it is not completely closed off.
And as such, the health of your own body is depending on the things you surround yourself with, and all the things you eat and drink and breathe to be healthy, in order for you to remain healthy. Just as how the planetary ecosystem is almost a closed-off ecosystem, but not entirely. So, just as how you are a tiny part of that planetary ecosystem, so am I and the way you live will affect every other living thing on this planet, including me.
And the way we both live will alter and affect the planet itself, and the way we change that planetary ecosystem will in the end adversely impact our own health.
The very same way that our planet is part of a much bigger universal ecosystem.
So, when Dr Cristiana Pașca Palmer, UN assistant secretary general and executive secretary of the convention on biological diversity, discusses Half Earth and dishes out her own thoughts on how it is all about 'whole Earth', I really could not agree more.
Earth is part of your individual health, and you are part of the health of this entire planet.
And that makes your health a pillar of my health and the health of the tigers and whales. And the health of bumblebees and city air is equally a part of the health of this planet and your own health and wellbeing.
Quote.
"Ultimately, the paradigm shift that perhaps is necessary is the wide-understanding that the Earth is one system of interconnected elements, and that humans’ social and economic systems are embedded in the larger nature’s system, and not the other way around".
- Dr Cristiana Pașca Palmer UN.
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