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<jats:p> The purpose of this essay is to discuss what is meant by the external environment within our discipline. The essay includes an overview of attention to environment that began when human beings first inhabited the planet and has continued to contemporary times within the context of nursing conceptual models. The finally recognized need for attention to global environmental conditions that include climate and climate change is cited. The essay concludes with a call for decolonizing the disciplinary meanings of environment. </jats:p>