Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature

Fevered Planet by John Vidal exposes how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies, drawing on the latest scientific research and decades of reporting from over 100 countries. He calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world and outlines how to make that change possible.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 25 April 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Fevered Planet, a timely and urgent investigation by John Vidal, Environment Editor of the Guardian for nearly thirty years, delves into the impact of nature destruction on our societies. The book highlights the urgent need for an investigation into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies. The author, George Monbiot, describes the book as searing, vital, and essential, while Bettany Hughes calls it a searing, vital work. The book explores the Age of Pandemics, where we are living in the midst of a global health crisis caused by various diseases, including Covid-19, mpox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, and Ebola. The author argues that the climate crisis and ecological destruction are creating the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever before. Drawing on the latest scientific research and decades of reporting from over 100 countries, the author 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. The author calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world and expertly outlines how to make that change possible.

Weight: 252g
Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526632296