Seventy percent of emerging diseases — such as Ebola, Zika and HIV/AIDS — are zoonotic in origin, meaning they circulate in animals before jumping to humans. “There is no great mystery about the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic — or any modern pandemic,” said Peter Daszak, president of the Ecohealth Alliance and chair of the IPBES workshop that drafted the …
一份由联合国生物多样性和生态系统服务政府间科学政策平台发布的报告显示，如今在全世界800万个物种中有100万个正因人类而遭受灭绝威胁，全球物种灭绝的“平均速度已经数十甚至数百倍于千万年前”。 A view of Yangshuo in Guilin city, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. 这份具有里程碑意义的报告描绘的灰暗图景显示因全球人口增长而遭受破坏的地球，人类无止境的消费正在毁掉大自然。 insatiable ：adj.贪得无厌的；不知足的 The global rate of species extinction "is already tens to hundreds of times higher than it has been, on average, over the last 10 million years," according to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, a UN committee, whose report was written by …
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