Health futures are not preordained, nor are they entirely predictable by extrapolation from the past. This is particularly relevant in an era of unprecedented uncertainties converging from the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple zoonotic outbreaks for the past two decades, and the climate crisis currently unfolding. Moreover, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services cautioned in 2019 that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction. Human existence and medical innovations are closely intertwined with preservation and sustainability of biodiversity. COVID-19 is a “dry run” for future ecological crises in the 21st century. We need new frames and ways of conceptualizing planetary health, biodiversity futures, and their principled governance post-COVID-19. In this article, I propose “One Nature” as a critically informed planetary health governance frame, and outline its key conceptual pillars. One Nature aims to transcend the socially constructed binaries between humans versus nature, humans versus nonhuman animals or inanimate objects in nature, among other false binaries, and thus, envisions nature as an overlapping, interdependent, and co-constitutive continuum among life forms and ecosystems. One Nature also recognizes animal sentience and agency of nonhuman animals. In doing so, the One Nature governance frame places a firm emphasis on the internal levers of social change and the human values essential to cultivate collective action to curb unchecked extraction of nature that placed human societies in harm's way for future health crises. One Nature is a governance frame and reflexive value system that can be transformative to correct the astigmatism we have long suffered, from the ways in which we have conceived, enacted on, and extracted the natural systems over the centuries. All in all, One Nature supports planetary health and biodiversity through a new vocabulary and post-anthropocentric critical governance lens, and shall help formulate progressive policies to prevent zoonotic outbreaks and future ecological crises.

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“一个自然”：COVID-19后行星健康中治理创新的新词汇和框架

卫生期货不是既定的，也不能完全由过去的推断来预测。在COVID-19大流行，过去二十年多次人畜共患病爆发以及当前气候危机不断蔓延的前所未有的不确定性时代，这一点尤其重要。此外，生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台在2019年警告说，大约一百万种动植物物种面临灭绝的威胁。人类的生存和医学创新与生物多样性的保存和可持续性息息相关。COVID-19是应对21世纪未来生态危机的“试车”。我们需要新的框架和方法来概念化行星健康，生物多样性未来及其在COVID-19之后的原则性治理。在这篇文章中，我提议将“一个自然”作为一个至关重要的行星健康治理框架，并概述其关键的概念支柱。一个自然旨在超越人类与自然，人类与非人类动物或自然中无生命的物体之间的社会建构的二进制，以及其他虚假的二进制，因此将自然构想为生命形式和生态系统之间的重叠，相互依存和共同构成的连续体。一种自然也承认动物的情感和非人类动物的代理。在这样做时，“单一自然”治理框架坚定地强调了社会变革的内在杠杆作用和人类价值观，这对于培养集体行动以遏制对人类自然的无节制提取至关重要，这种自然提取将人类社会置于危害未来健康危机的道路上。“一个自然”是一个治理框架和反思性的价值体系，可以改变以纠正我们长期以来所遭受的散光，这源于我们在多个世纪以来构思，实施和提取的自然系统的方式。总而言之，“一种自然”通过新的词汇表支持行星健康和生物多样性后以人为中心的批判性治理透镜，并应有助于制定预防人畜共患病暴发和未来生态危机的渐进政策。