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Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb
Currently most researchers consider humanity's extermination of biodiversity as the antecedent of ideal conditions for the emergence of new viruses and diseases. Animals lose their natural habitats due to extensive landscape changes, consequently crowding them together and increasing their inte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33872911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147090 |
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author | Lorenz, Camila de Oliveira Lage, Mariana Chiaravalloti-Neto, Francisco |
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description | Currently most researchers consider humanity's extermination of biodiversity as the antecedent of ideal conditions for the emergence of new viruses and diseases. Animals lose their natural habitats due to extensive landscape changes, consequently crowding them together and increasing their interaction with humans. Additionally, it is also important to emphasise the increasing concern on climate change because climate can modify the distribution and intensity of other diseases such as vector-borne disease. Unfortunately, the global resources for biodiversity conservation were diluted by government support for activities harmful to the environment. A tragic example is from the Amazon rainforest, that experienced fast environmental depletion and high social inequalities. Extractive systems and extensive land use on a large scale have induced deforestation, great loss of biodiversity, carbon emission, and water contamination, leading to indigenous land dispossession, violence, and rural-urban migration. The deforested areas in the Amazon region increase considerably at an alarming speed each year. The COVID-19 pandemic is an evidence to show how viruses and pathogens move further and faster than before, which means we must also show a quick response. It requires financing and, mostly, changes in human behaviour. The message is simple: we need to rethink our current relationship with nature and with ourselves, which should lead to a social transformation towards the sustainable use of the available resources. |
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spelling | pubmed-87215662022-01-03 Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb Lorenz, Camila de Oliveira Lage, Mariana Chiaravalloti-Neto, Francisco Sci Total Environ Article Currently most researchers consider humanity's extermination of biodiversity as the antecedent of ideal conditions for the emergence of new viruses and diseases. Animals lose their natural habitats due to extensive landscape changes, consequently crowding them together and increasing their interaction with humans. Additionally, it is also important to emphasise the increasing concern on climate change because climate can modify the distribution and intensity of other diseases such as vector-borne disease. Unfortunately, the global resources for biodiversity conservation were diluted by government support for activities harmful to the environment. A tragic example is from the Amazon rainforest, that experienced fast environmental depletion and high social inequalities. Extractive systems and extensive land use on a large scale have induced deforestation, great loss of biodiversity, carbon emission, and water contamination, leading to indigenous land dispossession, violence, and rural-urban migration. The deforested areas in the Amazon region increase considerably at an alarming speed each year. The COVID-19 pandemic is an evidence to show how viruses and pathogens move further and faster than before, which means we must also show a quick response. It requires financing and, mostly, changes in human behaviour. The message is simple: we need to rethink our current relationship with nature and with ourselves, which should lead to a social transformation towards the sustainable use of the available resources. Elsevier B.V. 2021-08-20 2021-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8721566/ /pubmed/33872911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147090 Text en © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Lorenz, Camila de Oliveira Lage, Mariana Chiaravalloti-Neto, Francisco Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb |
title | Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb |
title_full | Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb |
title_fullStr | Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb |
title_full_unstemmed | Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb |
title_short | Deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: The Amazon time bomb |
title_sort | deforestation hotspots, climate crisis, and the perfect scenario for the next epidemic: the amazon time bomb |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8721566/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33872911 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147090 |
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