A timely and urgent investigation from John Vidal Environment Editor of the Guardian for
nearly thirty years into how the destruction of nature is releasing disease into our societies
'Urgent fascinating and essential' GEORGE MONBIOT 'A searing vital work' BETTANY HUGHES
Covid-19 mpox bird flu SARS HIV AIDS Ebola we are living in the Age of Pandemics - one
that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction
continues unabated we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse
on our global health. Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm what we eat the places we
travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly
new diseases to emerge and spread faster and further than ever. Drawing on the latest
scientific research and decades of reporting from more than 100 countries former Guardian
environment editor John Vidal 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. He
calls for an urgent transformation in our relationship with the natural world and expertly
outlines how to make that change possible.
