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.
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526632272Number of pages: 352Dimensions: 234 x 153 mm
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'John Vidal has travelled far and wide,and we would be wise to take seriously the reports he sends back; human lives,particularly of the rich,are not just altering the plane tin devastatingly predictable ways,they are setting us up for some nasty surprises'- Bill McKibben
'A searing,vital work. Plagues and epidemics determine human history - now it is time to learn that how we live today is driving disease on a planetary level'- Bettany Hughes
'Drawing on a lifetime's experience as a frontline journalist,John Vidal compellingly joins the dots between accelerating climate change,population growth,dangerously disrupted ecosystems,our obsession with economic growth - and the inevitability of future pandemics. Fevered Planet is the most illuminating and disturbing book I've read in years'- Jonathon Porritt
'Vital,urgent,and forensic - John Vidal's unflinching examination of pandemic risk should be a wake-up call in capitals throughout the world. Unless we change course,Covid could be just the tip of an iceberg of even more deadly and disruptive diseases to come. Transforming our relationship with the natural world is essential for both human and planetary health - Fevered Planet expertly shows us how'- Caroline Lucas MP
'John Vidal has written a compelling analysis of the links between our planet and environment and our health. I found it hard to put down,and it brilliantly mixes his personal experience covering environmental issues for the Guardian with novel insights into how we can and should be doing better. A must-read for all those interested in pandemics,the environment and the animal-human nexus'- Devi Sridhar
'This beautifully researched book,including Vidal's own travels around the world,takes us through the rising number of pandemics,up to Covid-19 and beyond,to a disturbing account of our political inability to grasp what is happening and manage a safe future for our civilisation... global,national and local policy makers should all read and absorb this very important contribution to the current state of the world. We must learn to understand that we are a part of Nature,not apart from Nature'- Professor Sir David King,Former Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government and Founder of the Climate Crisis Advisory Group and Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge
'Urgent,fascinating and essential,Fevered Planet tells a crucial story that most of us have missed'- George Monbiot
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