Recognizing our hybridity and interconnectedness: Implications for social and environmental justice

McIntyre‐Mills, Janet

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“…The potential to learn from nature and to mimic nature's design would be a step in the right direction (along with understanding the patterns across different scales of living systems). Furthermore, an understanding of patterns across organic and inorganic systems could help to enhance an understanding of the hybridity and interconnectedness (McIntyre-Mills, 2017a) of human species within the web of life (Capra, 1996). Whilst consciousness is not the preserve of human beings, our ability to think about our thinking behoves us to address stewardship.…”

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“…norms and a posteriori measures for transformation towards regenerative living and preventing displacement of people, plants and animals (McIntyre-Mills, 2017a;McIntyre-Mills, Romm, & Corcoran Nantes, 2018. According to Crenshaw (1991:299),…”

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“…Business as usual is increasingly irrelevant to human and environmental security. Cooperation rather than competition within postnational bioregions is needed to ensure food, energy and water security to support life (McIntyre-Mills, 2017a).…”

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The COVID‐19 era: No longer business as usual

McIntyre‐Mills

2020

Syst Res Behav Sci

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The paper proposes an alternative cyclical economy based on eco‐villages supporting urban hubs to regenerate rural–urban balance based on public education to support eco‐facturing, to use Gunter Pauli's concept. The paper sketches an alternative cyclical economy based on eco‐villages supporting urban hubs to regenerate rural–urban balance based on eco‐facturing. Australia lost over 40 million acres of habitat and at least a billion creatures during the 2019–2020 bushfire season. Africa and Asia are also rapidly urbanizing and rapidly losing habitat. The paper outlines the way in which we could live differently by understanding that production, consumption and regeneration need to follow a natural ecological approach, rather than the current approach to extracting profit at the expense of future generations. Production and regeneration need to be conducted in ways that do not exploit people and the environment. Exchange practices need to ensure that the interests of the few are not expended at the expense of the many.

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The COVID‐19 era: No longer business as usual

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2020

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Toward a big picture of COVID‐19

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2022

Pharmacology Res & Perspec

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The paper aims to illustrate and explain the problems and opportunities for improvement in Covid management that become evident when taking a systems perspective. Critical time delays occurred in the regulation of the pandemic that the management cycle of political cybernetics makes explicit. In general, the executive management of the pandemic in global, regional, and national organizations was unprepared in detecting and responding to the onset of the waves and making appropriate decisions towards differential instead of general lockdowns based on available data. This was further complicated by the mutants of SARS‐CoV2 that perpetuated the high dynamics of the pandemic. In addition, the diversity of medical specialisms, without appropriate big picture thinking, led to an imbalanced response that failed to appreciate the role of virology and epidemiology compared to clinical and public health‐related issues. In consequence, laboratory experts suggested everyday regulations for the citizens without taking into account wider considerations for empirical research. There was an insufficient effort made for proposed treatment studies using existing agents based on the established understanding of essential physiology and the role of local and systemic chronic inflammation. In contrast, driven by media popularization, drugs that later proved beneficial were put in doubt and other drugs that lacked benefit and potentially caused harm were driven to clinical trials and utilization. Person‐centered systems view backed by scientific knowledge and established data would have set better priorities. Finally, we need to take a step back and consider the Corona crisis pandemic in the context of the unidimensional utility‐driven handling of natural ecosystems by the culture of industrialized countries. This ever‐accelerating destruction of life spaces for species drives adaptations are the basis of zoonoses. There is strong evidence that future pandemics should be faced with a more systemic socio‐ecological conceptual framework that also reflects the fatal impact of human civilization on natural ecosystems, no matter if SARS CoV2 is a zoonosis or a laboratory accident. It is critical for the future of our species that we collectively learn from this experience, address limitations in our perspectives, enhance our system‐based science and bolster global, regional, and national crisis management. The impact of climate change and biodiversity loss has crossed the horizon and is now clearly in full sight.

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Policy Design for Vocational Pathways to Protect Biodiversity and Regenerate the Land

McIntyre‐Mills

2019

Democracy and Governance for Resourcing the Commons

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Recognizing our hybridity and interconnectedness: Implications for social and environmental justice

Cited by 25 publications

References 56 publications

The COVID‐19 era: No longer business as usual

The COVID‐19 era: No longer business as usual

Toward a big picture of COVID‐19

Policy Design for Vocational Pathways to Protect Biodiversity and Regenerate the Land

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