{"id":202502,"date":"2024-12-26T21:12:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/why-are-we-seeing-more-pandemics-our-impact-on-the-planet-has-a-lot-to-do-with-it"},"modified":"2024-12-26T21:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T03:12:45","slug":"why-are-we-seeing-more-pandemics-our-impact-on-the-planet-has-a-lot-to-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/why-are-we-seeing-more-pandemics-our-impact-on-the-planet-has-a-lot-to-do-with-it","title":{"rendered":"Why are we seeing more pandemics? Our impact on the planet has a lot to do with it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-are-we-seeing-more-pandemics-our-impact-on-the-planet-has-a-lot-to-do-with-it2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Healthy, stable ecosystems provide services that keep us healthy, such as supplying food and clean water, producing oxygen, and making green spaces available for our recreation and wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>Another key service ecosystems provide is disease regulation. When nature is in balance \u2013 with predators controlling herbivore populations, and herbivores controlling plant growth \u2013 it\u2019s more difficult for pathogens to emerge in a way that causes pandemics.<\/p>\n<p>But when human activities <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com.au\/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rWozz12K1aUC&oi=fnd&pg=PP15&dq=planetary+overload&ots=c9mWuESUXN&sig=-1iP3uSOWazvC2OFLk4vginWbQQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=planetary%20overload&f=false\">disrupt and unbalance ecosystems<\/a> \u2013 such as by way of climate change and biodiversity loss \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/bioscience\/article\/58\/8\/756\/381265\">things go wrong<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthy, stable ecosystems provide services that keep us healthy, such as supplying food and clean water, producing oxygen, and making green spaces available for our recreation and wellbeing. Another key service ecosystems provide is disease regulation. When nature is in balance \u2013 with predators controlling herbivore populations, and herbivores controlling plant growth \u2013 it\u2019s more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}