BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Whether and how it might be possible to imagine a habitable planet through food and health. METHODS: Reflection on childhood happenstances, sociodemographic circumstances, educational opportunities, persons of influence and lifetime experiences insofar as they might have shaped a view of the past, present and future world as the sole rational home of us all. Confirmation of these notions by personal, kindred, and other contemporary records and publications. RESULTS: The need to live with uncertainty and an appreciation of connectedness with things animate and inanimate; and for this to be belief, identity, reason and professional imprimatur. That these things have unwittingly informed a near lifetime of interest and enthusiasm for how food and health systems are best served by socioecological approaches. CONCLUSIONS: That we are socioecological beings with a destiny dependent on reconciling ourselves, as earthlings, as to how well we keep our place in the cosmos habitable. To that end we must dream and work.
Date:
2021-02
Relation:
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2021 Feb;75(2):219-229.
