ONE HEALTH VS COP27 : SOLVING CLIMATE CHANGE DILEMMAS AS ONE HEALTH DILEMMAS
It is time we begin to acknowledge the fact that whatever affects humans will affect animals and the environment, whatever affects the hydrosphere will definately affect the lithosphere and atmosphere. Some of us cringe at the on-going climate change but we fail to acknowledge the fact that it's a product of all our collective actions across decades. As a one health advocate, I am optimistic the physical and virtual attendees of COP27 and One Health Congress while discussing climate change and focusing on environmental health, will acknowledge that it is impossible to ignore animal health and human health in proffering solutions to our current crisis. There were "talks", there are "talks" and there will be more "talks" in every health- climate change space if we do not solve our problems with a collaborative lens. It is important to note that when we transform education, we transform advocacy, policies and implementation strategies. In an infodemic era...