What Others Are Saying

It's time to put human welfare at the center of our climate strategies, which includes reducing the Green Premium to zero and improving agriculture and health in poor countries.

Although chronic diseases are primarily environmental (i.e., not genetic) in origin, the particular environmental causes of these diseases are poorly understood.

If we know what people are exposed to, then we can prevent the exposures… Let's identify the major sources of exposure, and work to control those.

Chronic illnesses like heart disease, cancer, and neurodegeneration take 20 years or longer to incubate in our body. So we have a long runway to work with… We've never been able to prevent them because we didn't have the tools… But that's completely changed now.

Medicine's biggest transformations will come from addressing the contexts and causes of disease, not just the disease itself.

Societies focus health spending disproportionately on curative care rather than preventive care, neglecting to address chronic and systemic conditions that cause persistent suffering… This preference for health care ultimately harms community health by treating and returning individuals to the environments in which they first fell sick.

Emerging challenges like climate change, pollution, and urbanization are driving surges in chronic diseases (obesity, cancers, cardiovascular illness) which demand completely different economic models and political mindsets.

Without decisive action on these risk factors, health goals will be unattainable. Action on environmental determinants should be integrated as a priority for health systems strengthening and resilience.

If there is any chance that the fertility declines that we found are as real and as fast as they appear to be, we should be much more careful about the chemicals we allow human exposure to.