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Linking environmental change to public health has been shown to make it more relevant to the general public. To examine how links between the environment and health have historically been imagined in American culture, Aoyama & Hudson analyze an anthology of US environmental writing. They found that health has been an important issue in American environmental writing since Henry David Thoreau. The writings of Aldo Leopold were especially important in linking the health of the land and ecological systems with the well-being of human communities. …