"Health is a human right"

First, we have to consider who is included in (and reciprocally, excluded from) the category "human."

Then, we have to interrogate whether "rights" are understood in terms of consumption/desert/citizenship, or as portable with persons.
And there's always the question of "health."

If health = absence of disease, what are we doing to prevent illness? Are our sick & disabled neighbors abandoned in our work? Is the ability to work prerequisite to "deserving" investments in one's "health?"
If health = a holistic concept (beyond biomedical formulations), then is our work to produce & enable "health" in the places we live/work/play/worship equitable, or are these investments concentrated in places whose residents privileged by a white supremacist, settler ethnostate?
And back to this: If health = absence of disease, how does this definition allow for adapting to a world where capitalism/colonialism-driven climate change makes zoonoses more likely/frequent/severe, first affecting the globally dispossessed & displaced? https://twitter.com/Arrianna_Planey/status/1264609175776251909
Examples of this include:

- "green resilient infrastructure" in gentrifying areas
- desalination for commercial use
- "conservation" that essentially extends colonial practices of enclosure/exclusion of indigenous people
- environmental racism, broadly https://twitter.com/Arrianna_Planey/status/1264609914007228417?s=20
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