Climate health food agriculture nexus
Hear how Dr Arnagretta Hunter and Dr Steve Crimp explore future implications of the climate crisis for health and agriculture and the health-food-agriculture linkages.
Presented by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE)
The impacts of the climate crisis on health, food and agricultural systems has been unprecedented in Australia, with heat waves, droughts, floods, bushfires, food shortages, smoke and dust pollution and other issues. On current trajectories the impacts are expected to be worse in the coming decades in Australia, as in other regions.
In the past, scientists, engineers and policy makers have tended to work on current problems in these areas and not invest sufficiently in understanding the full implications for the sectors in future years.
Moreover, health, food and agriculture were considered in isolation as Wendel Berry wrote, “People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are healed by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.”
Dr Arnagretta Hunter and Dr Steve Crimp will explore future implications of the climate crisis for health and agriculture and the health-food-agriculture linkages.
