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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

In honour of Chris Smalls and the first Amazon Union in the US – an extract from my ANOTHER NOW

It was with immense delight that I heard the news: Led by Chris Smalls, Amazon workers at a New York warehouse overcame their bosses’ scaremongering …

In honour of Chris Smalls and the first Amazon Union in the US – an extract from my ANOTHER NOW

Brazil’s Congress is accelerating a genocidal ‘death package’ bill, PL191, in order to open Indigenous lands to mining – an activity that’s banned in…

Indigenous people brandishing the Brazilian Constitution In a previous legal attack against Indigenous rights last year, Brazil’s Supreme Court …

Brazil’s Congress is accelerating a genocidal ‘death package’ bill, PL191, in order to open Indigenous lands to mining – an activity that’s banned in…

Protecting the environment to reduce the risk of another pandemic | Ensia

“If Covid-19 taught us anything, it is that testing, treatments and vaccines can prevent deaths, but they do not stop the spread of viruses across the globe and may never prevent the emergence of new pathogens,” Aaron Bernstein, director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health said in a press release. “As we look to the future, we absolutely cannot rely on post-spillover strategies alone to protect us.”

Here are nine of the most important ways we can help reduce the risk of future disease by rethinking how we farm, eat, trade and interact with other species. 

Source: Protecting the environment to reduce the risk of another pandemic | Ensia