Planetary Health: approaches to zoonotic spillover, indigenous health, and rainforest conservation (cadusdebate)

<p>As industrial civilization assaults the worlds remaining rainforests the health and cultural diversity of indigenous peoples is threatened along with much of the biodiversity of the planet. In turn these human changes to ecosystems, combined with vast expansion of domestic animal populations, cause spillover of zoonotic diseases which threaten the health of people worldwide. As with HIV and Ebola, every death from COVID-19 is an environmental effect.</p> about this event: https://cadus.org/debate