IN A NUTSHELL Editor's noteUnder One Health perspective, a live PDF here PEAH just received from our acknowledged partner Dr. George Lueddeke. Originally from Canada, now residing in the United Kingdom, George Lueddeke PhD MEd Dipl.AVES (Hon.) is an education advisor in Higher, Medical and One Health education and global lead of the International One Health for One Planet Education initiative (1 HOPE) in association with national, regional, and global organisations
By George Lueddeke, PhD
Consultant in Higher, Medical, and One Health Education
Global Lead – International One Health for One Planet Education initiative (1 HOPE)
Re-Orientation to Sustain Life on Earth
A PDF by George Lueddeke
Just received from Dr. George Lueddeke, PEAH is glad to bring to the attention of its readership a live PDF poster full of hyperlinks aimed, under One Health perspective, at re-orienting practices and behaviours by governments, corporations and civil society for the sake of a sustainable living on Earth.
In this connection, excerpts from what already published by Lueddeke can believably serve as an appropriate introduction:
...After billions of years of evolution, in just a few decades we have come to an inevitable turning-point. While we have made significant scientific / technological progress, we have failed to safeguard life on the planet including ours (we are but one of about 8.5 million species!). Although we have cognitive and affective capacities for achieving a harmonious world, our lives continue to be overridden by the self-interests, ambitions, and power of a few (1%?) -think AI and technology! In the longer run, it appears that “a more just, sustainable and peaceful world” can only be achieved if we all realise the consequences of our short-term thinking (e.g., profits over survival, control or enslavement over freedoms) and learn to rise above the human-fabricated divisions and inequities that divide us (social, political, religious, economic, etc.). If we fail, so will future generations and humanity. Democratic societies depend on a shared belief in ‘something greater than themselves’ and holding ‘power to account’. https://www.peah.it/2022/05/11063/
...Whether we are able to achieve a “more just, sustainable and peaceful world” will depend on the decisions we make now as opportunities for social transformation are becoming increasingly time- limited. There is no question that new thinking is required and that both education and research are key in moving societies in new directions to ensure planet sustainability. To these ends, here are a few re-orientations to consider by governments, corporations and civil society in general to sustain life on the planet shifting from: human-centrism to eco-centrism; subject fragmentation to disciplinary integration; knowledge transfer to knowledge discovery; intervention to prevention and a future consciousness; individualism to ‘learning from and with others’: those who ‘have‘ to those who ‘have not’; thinking globally to acting locally; profit margins to self-fulfilment and ‘doing something good’; self-interests, ambition, power to understanding, compassion and truth. https://www.peah.it/2022/05/11063/
Enclosed below is a link to an updated capacity-building publications poster (case study) originally prepared for UN SDG acceleration Summit last year
Click HERE to see the live PDF
The challenges and ‘reflections’ articles (all live) might be informative for some PEAH readers (e.g., comments on?).
By George Lueddeke on PEAH Betting on SDGs in a Disequal World Holistic Systemic Change to Care for All Life on Earth Earth Future: Time for a Global ‘Reset’! Reflections on Transforming Higher Education for the 21st Century: PART 3 The international One Health for One Planet Education Initiative (1 HOPE) and the ‘Ecological University’ Reflections on Transforming Higher Education for the 21st Century: PART 2 Development of a Global ‘All Life’ Narrative Reflections on Transforming Higher Education for the 21st Century: PART 1 The One Health & Wellbeing Concept Planet Earth: Averting ‘A Point Of No Return’? Tackling the Root Causes of Climate Change. If Not Now, WHEN? Commentary on ‘More for The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) – Impakter’ Rebuilding Trust and Compassion in a Covid-19 World The University in the early Decades of the Third Millennium: Saving the World from itself? The World at Risk: Covid-19, Global Sustainability and 1 HOPE Postscript – The World at Risk: Covid-19, Global Sustainability and 1 HOPE On this theme, see also INTERVIEW – ‘Survival: One Health, One Planet, One Future’ – Routledge, 1st edition, 2019