In responding to perceived crises—such as the COVID-19 pandemic—in routinized ways, contemporary bioethics can make us prisoners of the proximate. Rather, we need bioethics to recognize and engage with complex configurations of global ecosystem degradation and collapse, thereby showing us paths toward co-inhabiting the planet securely and sustainably. Such a planetary health ethics might draw rewardingly on Indigenous knowledge practices or Indigenous philosophical ecologies. It will require ethicists, with other health professionals, to step up and become public advocates for environmental sustainability. The COVID-19 pandemic should be seen as opening a portal to planetary health ethics or ecologized bioethics.

在以常规方式应对感知到的危机（例如 COVID-19 大流行）时，当代生物伦理学可能使我们成为近邻的囚徒。相反，我们需要生物伦理学来认识和应对全球生态系统退化和崩溃的复杂配置，从而向我们展示安全、可持续地共存地球的道路。这样的地球健康伦理可能会有益地借鉴土著知识实践或土著哲学生态学。这需要伦理学家和其他卫生专业人员加紧努力，成为环境可持续性的公众倡导者。COVID-19 大流行应被视为开启了地球健康伦理学或生态化生物伦理学的门户。