The campaign to beat the pandemic
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Covid and Climate
22 November 2021 @ 18:00 - 19:30 GMT
The Covid pandemic and climate disaster are closely linked. Environmental catastrophe, mega-cities and agri-business have created the conditions for this virus to emerge.
The interactions of humans with animals whose habitats we have destroyed allowed this virus to jump species – and then spread through globalised trade and travel.
Other pandemics such as Aids, Ebola and SARS had similar origins. They are driven by capitalism’s insatiable drive for profit and contempt for the ecology of the earth.
Rob Wallace, author of Big Farm Means Big Flu, will join us to explain how flu and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinationals. He works at the Agroecology and Rural Economics Research Corps (ARERC), a group of independent scientists, educators, and agricultural practitioners.
Adding Covid Action (formerly Zero Covid) events to your calendar:
In your Google Calendar, go to “other calendars”, click the + sign to “add other calendars”, choose “subscribe to calendar” and enter zerocoviduk@gmail.com as the calendar. We will are working on a nice way to upgrade this address and ICS file, for the time being it uses the old address.
If you use Outlook you need the ics address https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/zerocoviduk%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
No one is safe until everyone is safe.