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Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital pushes forward with deforestation for expansion
Read full article: Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital pushes forward with deforestation for expansionThe tree-cutting process has already started to create room for the expansion of a Henry Ford Health hospital in West Bloomfield.
Deforestation and Disease: How can we fix it?
Read full article: Deforestation and Disease: How can we fix it?Thatโs the thing, it goes everywhere, and progress, and itโs a challenge to move things along.โ Daniel Brindis, Greenpeace Forest DirectorHow do we fix deforestation and climate change and all things evil that are happening to the earth? The hunger for beef is the demand, the cows are the supply, so one way people can slow deforestation is by eating less red meat. Climate change, unfortunately, is driving deforestation as well, by fueling fires even more.โYou can also vote for change. We canโt wiggle our noses and reverse climate change. He says all we can do is our best, โThatโs really what weโre looking for right now is the best-case scenario.โPart 1: How deforestation is connected to our health: โNature is really trying to tell us somethingโPart 2: Deforestation and Disease: Is beef consumption killing the planet?
Deforestation and Disease: Is beef consumption killing the planet?
Read full article: Deforestation and Disease: Is beef consumption killing the planet?The red meat trade is massive in Brazil and the United States, and many other places in the world. Chan School of Public Health, says too much beef consumption is harmful in more ways than one. โItโs hard to justify beef consumption,โ Bernstein says red meat consumption is killing Americans, โSo we know that red meat consumption is driving people to get diseases that are leading them to die early. Dr. Joe Eisenberg, Professor, and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan says science needs to reposition itself for a different perspective on climate change the connection to disease, โIโve been working in climate change, and disease questions for decades, and itโs true that most climate change researchers Donโt think about the link to disease as much.โEisenberg says he thinks people are thinking about it more now than ever before. What you can do to help slow down deforestation, climate change, and everything else attached.
How deforestation is connected to our health: โNature is really trying to tell us somethingโ
Read full article: How deforestation is connected to our health: โNature is really trying to tell us somethingโDeforestation on the riseThe rate of deforestation is about two to one over forest expansion. Their forest campaign director, Daniel Brindis, says way too many trees are cut down, โDeforestation is on the rise. But not all of those events happen in forests, โWe think that COVID emergence happened in a similar way thatโs ours emergence happening. Our health is linked to the earthโs health, โConnecting dots right now could not be easier with Coronavirus and wildfires and hurricanes,โ says Bernstein. He says you canโt miss the message, โYou know, itโs in our faces, nature is really trying to tell us something.