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Covid-19, monkeypox, 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. From fossil fuel use raising the global
temperature to increased logging polluting our landscapes, Fevered
Planet exposes the perils of reckless environmental destruction –
not just to our planet but to ourselves. As Vidal expertly argues,
unless we transform our relationship with the rest of the natural
world, the pandemics we are facing today will just be the tip of
the iceberg.
Covid-19, monkeypox, 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. From fossil fuel use raising the global
temperature to increased logging polluting our landscapes, Fevered
Planet exposes the perils of reckless environmental destruction –
not just to our planet but to ourselves. As Vidal expertly argues,
unless we transform our relationship with the rest of the natural
world, the pandemics we are facing today will just be the tip of
the iceberg.
McLibel is the unlikely but true story of how a pamphlet called
"What's Wrong with McDonald's?" led to the longest trial in British
history. In what has become front-page news around the globe, the
trial pitted the multi-billion-dollar corporation against five
members of London Greenpeace accused by McDonald's of libel. Three
activists capitulated and apologized; two persevered. McLibel tells
the story of the "McLibel Two" and the two-and-a-half-year trial in
which the jeans-clad and impoverished defendants represented
themselves against the best powdered-wig lawyers McDonald's could
buy. Does the fast-food chain exploit children? Depress wages?
Level South and Central American rain forests? Subject its cattle
and chicken to mass slaughters? A final chapter explores these
allegations and details the $98,000 verdict against the activists
Morris and Steel, which is widely viewed as a moral victory for the
defendants and a public relations fiasco for McDonald's.
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