EnvironmentHealthScience and technology 3 min readEnsuring Biodiversity Now will Prevent Pandemics Later 26 May 20200By Samira Sadeque – IPS A future repetition of the current COVID-19 pandemic is preventable with massive cooperation on international... Read More
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Civil SocietyEnvironmentHealth 2 min readAn appeal to the respect for nature 23 April 20200Riccardo Petrella* “Science (and economics) for the health of the earth’s inhabitants.” For a common, public, free worldwide coronavirus vaccine.... Read More
Civil SocietycultureEnvironmentHealthHistoryNeo-liberalismPopulism 7 min readHaunting Forest Spirits – is Mother Nature Striking Back? 20 April 20200By Jan Lundius* Epidemic diseases are not random events that afflict societies capriciously and without warning, on the contrary, every... Read More
DemocracyEnvironmentHealthPolitics 8 min readItaly, democracy and COVID-19 14 April 20200 By Francesco Martone* The crisis triggered by COVID-19 is challenging the very meaning of coexistence and cohabitation and redesigning the... Read More
Civil SocietyClimate ChangeEnvironmentHealth 3 min readBack to normal? The great fear 6 April 20200Riccardo Petrella* I hope not. Guido Viale has written some wise things about this, explaining why a “return to normal”... Read More
Climate ChangeEnvironmentHealth 5 min readThe epidemic provides a chance to do good by the climate 1 April 20200The Economist The chances are, though, that it will not be taken In Venice, water in the canals is running clear,... Read More
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Climate ChangeEnvironmentHealth 11 min readDoes the Pandemic have a Silver Lining? / Covid-19: What comes afterwards? 23 March 20200Arthur Lyon Dahl* – Seán Ó Siochrú* Should we thank God for the Pandemic? It may seem weird to be... Read More