‘Potentially devastating’: Climate crisis may fuel future pandemics
There will be at least 15,000 instances of viruses leaping between species over the next 50 years, with the climate crisis helping fuel a “potentially devastating” spread of disease that will imperil animals and people and risk further pandemics, researchers have warned.
Gesundheit PandemieWe Created the ‘Pandemicene’
For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most do not, because they have few chances to leap into our bodies. But those chances are growing.
Gesundheit PandemieZaudern der mächtigsten Länder – Klimapleite in der Corona-Krise
Die mächtigsten Wirtschaftsnationen der G-20 versprachen, ihre Aufbauprogramme am Klimaschutz auszurichten. Die Zahlen zeigen eine andere Entwicklung. Eigentlich hätte es die grosse Chance der Corona-Krise sein sollen.
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