S1E37: Peter Daszak on nurturing nature to prevent future pandemics: Green Pulse Ep 37

Green Pulse Ep 37: Peter Daszak on nurturing nature to prevent
future pandemics


13:10 mins


Synopsis: Every first and third Monday of the month, The
Straits Times analyses the beat of the changing environment, from
biodiversity conservation to climate change in this podcast
series.


In this episode, ST’s environment correspondent Audrey Tan and
climate change editor David Fogarty host Dr Peter Daszak,
president of non-profit Washington-based Ecohealth Alliance.


A report linking environmental damage and pandemics was recently
published based on the findings of a major meeting hosted by
IPBES, the UN biodiversity panel. The authors, including Dr
Daszak, found that future pandemics will happen more often, kill
more people and wreak even worse damage to the global economy
than Covid-19. What can be done to reduce the risks of future
pandemics?


They discuss the following points:
How a recent scientific report shows increasing risk of new
infectious diseases and pandemics in this globalised world (1:00)
This report estimates another 1.7 million undiscovered viruses that
exist in animals and why up to 850,000 of them can infect people
(3:43) Why there needs to be a global programme to prevent
pandemics instead of reacting to them after: Can health risks
within wildlife trade and even consumer consumption habits be
controlled? (8:33) Weighing the costs of prevention programmes
against global economic damages from pandemics and why time is
running out (10:06)

Produced by: Audrey Tan (audreyt@sph.com.sg), David Fogarty
(dfogarty@sph.com.sg) & Ernest Luis


Edited by: Adam Azlee


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