Power and the planetary health equity crisis

Abstract

Planetary health equity—the environmentally sustainable and equitable enjoyment of good health—is in crisis as climate change ravages global populations through increased temperatures, wildfires, and increasingly severe and frequent storms, flooding, and landslides.1 Ecosystem collapse is a real threat in Australia.2 Health inequities are likely to worsen as pre-existing inequities ensure that socially disadvantaged groups and people in low-income and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected by climate change.