The book “Fevered Planet” by John Vidal argues that human history’s advances have increased disease risks. Vidal connects disease emergence to environmental destruction, urging action to reduce future pandemics.
My daughter Sofie was born in April 2021, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic and in a decade in which climate change is increasingly high on the global agenda. Sofie’s World is a series of articles in which I reflect on parenthood in the context of the climate crisis and what it might be like for her growing up in the era of the Anthropocene.
A greener life, a greener world 