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Saturday, April 22, 2023

To protect our health, protect our planet

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Consider the damage we have done in the last 50 years. As a result of human actions, the earth has lost one-third of its forests, 90 per cent of its large commercial fisheries, one-fifth of the land suitable for agriculture, one-fifth of its topsoil, half the coral reefs and 80 per cent of its wetlands.

As a result of deforestation across the world, wildlife is losing its habitat. As wildlife comes into closer contact with humans, this can accelerate the spread of zoonotic diseases, such as Sars and Covid-19. 

If the beneficial insects did not flourish, most of our land ecosystems would collapse and a good part of humanity would perish with them. One of the beneficial insects ...is the bee, which is responsible for not only producing honey, but also the pollination of an estimated one-third of all plants or plant products eaten by humans. ... declining bee populations pose a threat to global food security.

About half of prescribed medicine comes, directly or indirectly, from natural sources – plants, animals and microbes. Traditional Chinese medicine relies on plants and animals even more than Western medicine.

Qn: Since the extinction of species is a natural phenomenon, is there any point in trying to prevent it? (Cam. 2022)