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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

229) David Quammen: Zoonosis and human pandemics exacerbated by ecological disruption

Apr 20, 2020
44:12

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David Quammen is a journalist and the author of several books, including EBOLA, The Tangled Tree, and Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2012).

In this podcast episode, David sheds light on how zoonotic diseases, like the coronavirus, are related to environmental conservation; how we've been making ourselves more and more vulnerable to having infectious diseases become full-blown pandemics; and more.

 

Featured music: Mission to Earth by NYADO

Episode notes: www.greendreamer.com/229

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