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Bloomsbury presents Fevered Planet by John Vidal read by John Sackville

A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies

Urgent fascinating and essential GEORGE MONBIOT
A searing vital work BETTANY HUGHES

Covid19 mpox bird flu SARS HIV AIDS Ebola we are living in the Age of Pandemics one that we have created As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health

Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm what we eat the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever Drawing on the latest scientific research and decades of reporting from more than 100 countries former Guardian environment editor John Vidal takes us into deep disappearing forests in Gabon and the Congo valleys scorched by wildfire near Lake Tahoe and our densest polluted cities to show how closely human animal and plant diseases are now intertwined with planetary destruction He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world and expertly outlines how to make that change possible