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The Covid Vaccine Mandates: A Trauma-Informed Perspective

Paris Williams — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:27:31 +0000

The New Zealand's response to the Covid crisis - their 'no jab, no job' policy - is tearing the fabric of our society, and could potentially cause more harm than the virus itself. Dr Paris Williams invites us to explore this crisis through a trauma-informed lens, suggesting that this can offer us a way out of this mess.

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Couple Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara to Produce Film Exposing Link Between Factory Farms and Pandemics

The CNCL Team — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 22:46:53 +0000

New film The End of Medicine—created by award-winning British filmmaker Alex Lockwood and What the Health co-director Keegan Kuhn—aims to spotlight the role of animal agriculture in the rise of zoonotic diseases such as COVID-19.

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How to Stop the Next Pandemic: U.N. Report Links Outbreaks to Climate Crisis & Industrial Farming

The CNCL Team — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 01:57:03 +0000

A new UN report says COVID-19 has a zoonotic origin, meaning it jumped from animals to humans, and the U.N. report finds that such diseases are spreading with greater frequency due to human activity, including industrial farming and the climate crisis.

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Conservationists Point at Pandemic as Reason to Protect Wildlife

The CNCL Team — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:03:05 +0000

As scientists believe the new coronavirus may have been passed to humans in a live animal market in China, wildlife advocates say rolling back efforts to protect threatened animal populations has dire consequences.

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Ban Wildlife Markets to Avert Pandemics, Says UN Biodiversity Chief

The CNCL Team — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:28:56 +0000

Warning comes as destruction of nature increasingly seen as key driver of zoonotic diseases

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Coronavirus: ‘Nature Is Sending Us a Message’, Says UN Environment Chief

The CNCL Team — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 02:17:55 +0000

Destruction of wildlife and the climate crisis is hurting humanity, with Covid-19 a ‘clear warning shot’, say experts.

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Our Growing Food Demands Will Lead to More Corona-like Viruses

The CNCL Team — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:18:14 +0000

As agriculture expands, habitats will shrink. That will likely lead to higher numbers of the species that transmit deadly diseases.

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‘A Common Germ Pool’: The Frightening Origins of the Coronavirus

The CNCL Team — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 23:14:36 +0000

Some 60 percent of the new diseases that crop up around the globe each year are zoonotic — meaning they come from domesticated animals or wildlife. Scientists have found that infectious diseases are now emerging more rapidly than in the past.

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Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming

The CNCL Team — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 04:44:35 +0000

Here are Caitlin Johnstone's 9 thoughts about COVID-19 and what's coming...

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A Rare Flesh-Eating Bacteria Is Spreading Because of Climate Change

The CNCL Team — Wed, 19 Jun 2019 04:13:16 +0000

A team of researchers has published a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine, arguing that the sudden appearance of the flesh-eating infection, Vibrio vulnificus, which is generally found in warmer water off the coast of southeastern United States and in other parts of the world, can be linked to rising ocean temperatures.

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Superbugs to Kill More People than Cancer if Industrial Agriculture Doesn’t Ditch Antibiotics and Pesticides

The CNCL Team — Wed, 24 Apr 2019 07:59:34 +0000

Industrial agriculture is perpetuating one of the greatest threats to mankind. From the rampant overuse of antibiotics in factory farm animals to the heavy spraying of pesticides on food crops, industrial agriculture has given rise to deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs.

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