Riya Jariwala
As we traverse pandemic times and feel the need to return to normalcy, scientists warn that more pandemics like the ongoing coronavirus will occur more frequently due to habitat destruction and deforestation. Eliminating natural environments of different species won’t make the species themselves disappear. As University of Montpellier infectious diseases researcher Roger Frutos puts it, “We instead create a patchwork, a mosaic of their environment that’s closer to ours, with houses that attract insects or sheds where bats can rest and find shelter.” And with that comes the spread of more infectious diseases, which is evident from the three pandemics that have occurred since 2002: SARS, Ebola, and currently SARS-CoV-2. All three of these viruses have jumped from wild animals to humans, and the probability of the spread of similar infectious diseases will only continue if we don’t reassess how our land conversion behaviors.
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Victoria Liu Members of the Local Leaders club were provided a poll that consisted of current climate change issues, in which they were given a task to rank each issue based on its importance and relevance in their lives. Here is a demonstration of how the Peardeck poll was conducted: Members were given three sets of issues with five topics, in which they had to rank from one (least important) to five (most important). Here is an example of how the poll was organized. The above picture is an overlaid view of the responses, however each participant only saw his or her own ranking when taking the poll. |
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