Different types of evidence in " Stopping Deforestation Can Prevent Pandemics" by The Editors( 2020). by

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ky84tzjsmn — 2023-11-19 17:15:54 UTC

A 2019 study found that a 10 percent increase in deforestation would raise malaria cases by 3.3 percent; that would be 7.4 million people worldwide. Yet despite years of global outcry, deforestation still runs rampant. An average of 28 million hectares of forest have been cut down annually since 2016, and there is no sign of a slowdown

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ky84tzjsmn — 2023-11-19 17:17:07 UTC

Eating less meat, which physicians say will improve our health anyway, will lessen demand for crops and pastures.

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ky84tzjsmn — 2023-11-19 17:20:24 UTC

The need for land also will ease if nations slow population growth—something that can happen in developing nations only if women are given better education, equal social status with men and easy access to affordable contraceptives.

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ky84tzjsmn — 2023-11-19 17:21:37 UTC

In September 2019, just months before the COVID-19 pandemic began, the U.S. Agency for International Development announced it would end funding for PREDICT, a 10-year effort to hunt for threatening microbes that found more than 1,100 unique viruses.

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ky84tzjsmn — 2023-11-19 17:22:47 UTC

In addition, we have to examine factory farms that pack thousands of animals together—the source of the 2009 swine flu outbreak that killed more than 10,000 people in the U.S. and multitudes worldwide.

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ky84tzjsmn — 2023-11-19 17:23:24 UTC

SARS, Ebola and now SARS-CoV-2: all three of these highly infectious viruses have caused global panic since 2002—and all three of them jumped to humans from wild animals that live in dense tropical forests.

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ky84tzjsmn — 2023-11-19 18:26:01 UTC

Three quarters of the emerging pathogens that infect humans leaped from animals, many of them creatures in the forest habitats that we are slashing and burning to create land for crops, including biofuel plants, and for mining and housing