The dangers to health when we live in a bubble

[摘要] We all live in our bubbles. These are where we live our versions of reality and avoid confronting anything that might harm them. Our habitable biosphere on earth is a bubble. Inside are the smaller bubbles that include our family, beliefs, habits, work, and everything else that is important in our lives. If we are lucky, most of our bubbles are comfortable. But these bubbles can burst. If the biggest burst then all the others inside are at risk.Kate Raworth1 in Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist2 uses the model of a doughnut to suggest how we should live in the 21st century. Inside her doughnut is the safe and just living space for humanity. The inner ring of the doughnut encloses all the essentials for our social needs. The outer ring is our ecological ceiling. If we exceed our ceiling, we threaten our safe living space.OUR BUBBLES OF MISINFORMATION, MISUNDERSTANDING, AND DENIAL Bubbles, doughnuts, or however we imagine it, we live in an imperfect world. Our habitable biosphere felt safe apart from when we feared that a minority might turn the cold war into a hot one and start a nuclear winter. The climate and ecological emergency has shattered our confidence. Now it is us, the majority in higher-income countries, who are causing the problem and it is us who have to change how we live to prevent the worst of climate catastrophes. Why don’t we change?We live in our bubbles of misinformation — we have our information and knowledge deficits. Hans Rosling in his book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World — And Why Things Are Better Than You Think3 and its online quiz asks simple questions about our world and shows that most of us are wrong.We live in our bubbles of misunderstanding — we have our salience deficits. We may think an issue is not important or we view it through a different frame.We live in our bubbles of denial — we use denial to cope with distressing situations, but this interferes with our ability to tackle challenges.

[学科分类] 卫生学