This perspective paper applies a panpsychist ethical lens to the public health response to anthropogenic global climate change by deconstructing dominant conceptualizations of consciousness and time. Climate change as a public health crisis and the ethical imperative to innovate the science and ethos surrounding the field’s response will be addressed first, followed by a brief history of public health practice and ethics. Next a critique of public health ethics, theory and practice will be presented, interrogating the field of epistemic injustice; followed by arguments presenting a panpsychist resolve of this injustice. A multidisciplinary review of the field’s response to the crisis then argues that the philosophical underpinnings of modern scientific logic and the ethos surrounding it naturally give rise to panpsychist reasoning and must be more thoughtfully and thoroughly considered to address it and the disparate health outcomes it has and will produce. Panpsychist ethical reasoning is then applied to the Social Ecological Model of health behavior and the Health in All Policies framework; revealing how these paradigms could benefit from expansive definitions of consciousness and temporality and arguing that to address climate change these models must prioritize intergenerational and interspecies health and justice, along with a truly planetary ethic.