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Podcast: The Climate Question
Episode: The war on trees and what it means for disease
Description: Many people have worried that the Covid-19 pandemic meant the harm of climate change was being ignored. But could the opposite be true? Neal Razzell and Graihagh Jackson look at the links between both emerging pandemics and deforestation. We’ll be on the ground in Nigeria, with BBC reporter Nkechi Ogbonna showing us the reality of farming and land use change in the tropics. While in the bush, she meets an illegal logger to find out their take on climate change and pandemics.Professor Thomas Gillespie studies emerging infectious diseases, the types we don’t even have a na...