Relationship between human wellbeing and environment

Environmental issues are always a large concern in sustainability. It includes climate changes, air pollution, d depletion in biodiversity and more. It is well established that an unhealthy environment would lead to social and economic issues. A research published by the University of California – Berkeley recently demonstrates the relationship between human wellbeing and depletion in fish stock around Kenya’s Lake Victoria.

The research is based on an assumption that human disease provides ‘a natural to environmental exploitation’. The outcomes of the research demonstrate that poor human health might leads to damages to the environment. According to Science Daily, Kathryn Fiorella the lead author of the study found out that fisher with illness would alter the method to fish, more destructive and illegal methods are used (University of California – Berkeley, 2017). Those methods are usually more time and energy efficient but with large negative impacts on the environment. The research suggests that better healthcare would benefit both environment and social aspect, it can also benefit human in managing the sustainability of resources and environmental development. Richard Yuretich, a program officer for NSFD stated that healthy people would plan carefully on the process which results in less environmental impacts (University of California – Berkeley, 2017).

I think it is important for people to understand this relationship since it is related to the main aspects of sustainability. It demonstrates the impacts of human wellbeing on the environment which is reverted of a common scenario. I think the result of the experiment demonstrate human psychological effect can impact on environmental where a human would focus on short term gain when they are in an unhealthy body. Therefore, I think that this report demonstrated that having healthy social aspects would be benefits to environment sustainability. I think it is important for the public to understand that social aspect has large impacts on the environment, not only economic developments would have impacts on the environment.

University of California - Berkeley. (2017, April 17), When human illness rises, the environment suffers, too. ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170403151145.htm (accessed April 18, 2017).