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  • Fevered Planet

  • How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature
  • By: John Vidal
  • Narrated by: John Sackville
  • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
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Fevered Planet

By: John Vidal
Narrated by: John Sackville
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Bloomsbury presents Fevered Planet by John Vidal, read by John Sackville.

A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies

'Urgent, fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT
'A searing, vital work' BETTANY HUGHES

Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics – one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health.

Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever. Drawing on the latest scientific research and decades of reporting from more than 100 countries, former Guardian environment editor John Vidal takes us into deep, disappearing forests in Gabon and the Congo, valleys scorched by wildfire near Lake Tahoe and our densest, polluted cities to show how closely human, animal and plant diseases are now intertwined with planetary destruction. He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world, and expertly outlines how to make that change possible.
©2023 John Vidal (P)2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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Destroying nature devastates our health

Forensic meticulous detail. As a doctor dealing with the Covid crisis And other infectious disease, that have spread southward with climate change. Flooding and heat waves impacting my patients. Understanding the intersection of human disease , ecological destruction and poor planning and building code. This a welcome book that I will share with my fellow doctors , vet friends and everyone who cares. And some don’t. The solutions are in our hands.

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