Purveyors of One Health: The Ecological Imperative Driving the Future of Leisure Services

Abstract

The coronavirus pandemic, for all of its damage to human health and well-being, has brought to light the wisdom underlying the idea of One Health, whose advocates reason that health is a reciprocal relationship between our species and the environment that sustains us. What is good for people should also be good for the environment, and what is good for the environment should also be good for people. Their preferred future is one in the same. As the recent days, weeks, and months have also shown, leisure is not necessarily a cure for what ails us. Indeed, leisure pursuits may have contributed to the pandemic’s spread. What, then, are we to make of leisure in the time of the coronavirus? We believe it is a fundamental lesson in ecology.