Speaking in May 2023, Joyeeta Gupta, a professor of environment at the University of Amsterdam and the co-chair of the Earth Commission, an independent international group of scientists, suggested that if our planet was visiting the doctor for an annual check-up, the result would be a warning that “the Earth is really quite sick right now and it is sick in terms of many different areas or systems and this sickness is also affecting the people living on Earth” (Borenstein, 2023). Of course, there are problems with the ‘personification’ of the planet but trying to make sense of its complexity by representing it in certain ways has been enriching cultures and prompting enquiry throughout the history of mythology and art, literature and philosophy (DuRocher, 1996). It is unsurprising, then, that modern science should also resort to using the familiar metaphorical form of the ‘body’ when trying to convey ‘findings’ and enhance popular understanding (Giblett, 2008, pp. 1–18; Jackson, 1983). The main preoccupation about the body, of course, is what ‘state of health’ it is in and hence, given the dependence of all life on a sustaining and sustainable planet, it seems that it might be useful to employ a ‘health’ perspective when thinking about the planet, eco-justice, environmental harms, and the interdependence of species.