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Biodiversity
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As early humans moved about, they were accompanied by a whole entourage of creatures they had come to depend on, or learned to coexist with — not only their crop plants and domesticated animals, which they carried with them deliberately, but also the creatures that had adopted them during their lengthy process of developing agriculture and animal husbandry and building habitations and cities, roads and canals, seaports and fortifications. To quote Anderson [Edgar Anderson, Plants, Man, and Life:
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― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
― Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
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The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spillover from wild animal populations and into human ones.'
Perhaps COVID-19 will prove to be a wake-up call. We now have the most selfish of reasons to save biodiversity -- our own welfare.
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― Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
― Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them
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