COVID-19 has made humanity reflect on its past mistakes, current challenges, and future actions. This book looks at the problems humanity faces, and how it needs to co-exist with animals and plants in their habitats, in a socially responsible and ethical manner. A practical, solutions-driven handbook to steer humanity to a sustainable future.
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Farzana Prior. The blood bath has begun, are we too late to save humanity?
Prologue
Politicians: A call to action
Economies: A call to change
Society: A call to care
Technology: A call to invest
Law: A call for Sanctions
EnVironment: A call to protect
Epilogue
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This book is dedicated to my younger son who loves biology.
Deforestation is driving wildlife out of their evolutionary niches and into man made environments where they interact and breed new strains of diseases. Three quarters of new diseases that have infected humans recently originated in animals. It is humanity that is encroaching and destroying the habitat of wild species and not the wild species targeting humanity.
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Further north, in the Baltic, the deadly Vibrio bacteria blooms whenever water surface temperatures rise above fifteen degrees Celsius. Average temperatures are on the rise in higher altitudes and latitudes, meaning ticks can live in new places bringing with them Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis (inflammation of the brain).
Ixodes ricinus, spreads Lyme disease and encephalitis
