A one health economy
One of the ways that environmental inequalities manifest is through the market economy. Research increasingly shows how the weight of capitalist interests cause disequilibria in nature: these imbalances spread to the welfare of animals and back to humans through socio-economic interactions. One Heal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2025-12-01
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| Series: | Global Bioethics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/11287462.2025.2511516 |
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| Summary: | One of the ways that environmental inequalities manifest is through the market economy. Research increasingly shows how the weight of capitalist interests cause disequilibria in nature: these imbalances spread to the welfare of animals and back to humans through socio-economic interactions. One Health recognises this connection as generative of unhealthy environments, but little has so far been said about the morality of balancing conflicting interests between animals and humans for resources and space. This paper focusses on One Health’s interdisciplinarity; and provides an alternative research methodology, based on concordance of the “right to science,” to analyse ethical collaborations between markets and ecological economies. The argument is illustrated by the financing of space exploration and its cost to the environment. My modest ambition is to enhance the ethical debate of a planetary “eco-” [Greek: oikos “house, dwelling place, habitation”] by connecting health, economies [oikonomia “household management”], and ecology [logia “study of”] to a sense of normative environmentalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1128-7462 1591-7398 |