Sustaining Life: How Human Health Depends on Biodiversity
Author: Eric Chivian; Founder and Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment; Nobel Peace Prize-winning scientist
Tuesday March 17
12:00-1:30 pm
THE WORLD BANK
1818 H STREET, N.W.
WASHINGTON, DC 20433
The Earth's biodiversity - the rich variety of life on our planet - is disappearing at an alarming rate. Too often the focus of discussion is limited to the aesthetic, ethical, sociological, or economic dimensions of this loss, However there is a fuller range of potential threats that diminishing biodiversity poses to human health.
This event focuses on a comprehensive--and sobering--view of how human medicines, biomedical research, the emergence and spread of infectious diseases, and the production of food, both on land and in the oceans, depend on biodiversity. Climate change and invasive species are among the latest threats on the horizon.
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