To protect the health of humans, save other species. That’s the message from Eric Chivian and Aaron Bernstein from Harvard Medical School in Boston, who say that human health depends crucially on biodiversity.
While plenty of investigations have focused on the sociological and economic impact of species dying out, few have considered the impact on human health. Chivian and Bernstein hope to change this by drawing together the ideas of leading thinkers on the subject in Sustaining Life: How human health depends on biodiversity, to be published by Oxford University Press in May. Due to be launched at the…
