Covid-19: a pandemic that we made

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Person with Covid-19 arriving at Manaus Hospital, in the Amazon.

AFP - MICHAEL DANTAS

By: Anne-Cécile Bras Follow

50 min

We cut forests, we mess up the climate, we never stop traveling and moving goods and animals from one end of the planet to the other ... The 62 scientists interviewed by Marie-Monique Robin are unanimous : this pandemic is a collective failure.

Health ecologists knew they sounded the alarm years ago, but they were not listened to.

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So yes today, it's the race for vaccines, but for once the root causes of this pandemic will be analyzed?

Our relationship to biodiversity: this is the place to look!

Guest:

Marie-Monique Robin

who has just published

La Fabrique des pandémies, preserving biodiversity, an imperative for planetary health,

 published by La Découverte.

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the making of the documentary, it's here

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