It is worth noting though that the science
behind planetary health is still being established, meaning that devising and testing ecosystems - based solutions at the local level, as a complement to traditional public health measures, will be critical to building the field.
Amazingly, while the fundamental discoveries in science in the 17th century — gravity, light waves,
planetary rotation around stars and the incredible abstraction of science in mathematics — spurred huge explosions of discoveries in physics and chemistry, fundamental discoveries in biology largely lagged
behind and were important only as they related to human
health.