Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
Become active - It's your duty!
- This event has passed.
Dr. Trevor Hancock | The Wellbeing Society: A response to declining planetary health and increasing inequality |25 Sept 2024 at 13:30 ET | CACOR Live
September 25 @ 08:00 - 17:00 EDT
Speaker: Dr. Trevor Hancock
Subject: The Wellbeing Society: A response to declining planetary health and increasing inequality
Time: 25 Sept 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
We have surpassed the limits to growth, crossing six of nine planetary boundaries and exceeding the Earth’s biocapacity five-fold in Canada. Our current economic system, and the core values that underpin it, is not fit for purpose in the 21st century: Not only is it depleting natural capital and driving declining planetary health, it is also depleting social capital and driving deepening inequality. The World Health Organisation has called for the creation of “sustainable “well-being societies”, committed to achieving equitable health now and for future generations without breaching ecological limits”. What might this look like?
Biography:
Dr. Trevor Hancock is a public health physician and health promotion consultant and retired in 2018 from his position as a Professor and Senior Scholar at the School of Public Health and Social Policy, University of Victoria. He is one of the founders of the global Healthy Cities and Communities movement, co-founded both the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, and was the first leader of the Green Party of Canada in the 1980s. His recent focus has been the combination of his two main areas of interest: The relationship between human health and the natural environment (‘planetary health’) and linking the healthy and sustainable community approaches through the concept of a ‘One Planet’ region.