Fauci Warns That Earth Has Entered a “Pandemic Era”
Dr. Fauci warns that we’ve all entered a “pandemic era” due to the impacts of human civilization on spreading new diseases.
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Dr. Fauci warns that we’ve all entered a “pandemic era” due to the impacts of human civilization on spreading new diseases.
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Richard Misrach: Untitled, 2007
Even McKibben struggles for an adequate vocabulary to describe the duplicity of oil companies: “There should be a word for when you commit treason against an entire planet.”
I’m not the only writer to wonder whether books are still an appropriate medium to convey the frightening speed of environmental upheaval. But the environment is infinitely intricate, and mere articles—much less daily newsfeeds or Twitter—can barely scratch the surface of environmental issues, let alone explore the extent of their consequences. Ecology, after all, is about how everything connects to everything else. Something so complex and crucial still requires books to attempt to explain it.
Source: Burning Down the House | by Alan Weisman | The New York Review of Books