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Pretty good. Were all doing what we can to share a moment, even those avoiding the contagion which supposedly presaged what was going to happenreally didnt capture the full scope. I guess my first question is about the book which is apocalypse never. Its a very definitive statement unless theres nuances that ive missed. It implies certainty in a world of interlaced. I describe our Current Situation as tripwires and landmines that are interlaced and complex and unpredictable in a complex system so are you confident when you say apocalypse never and i guess that depends on the definition of apocalypse. Thanks andy. The arguments in the book is Climate Change is real but its not the end of the world and its not even almost areas environmental problem. I plan climate activist for 20 years, and i see what im trying to do here is more if youre a cancer doctor and theres like a b ....
Host good evening i am one of the founders to politics and prose. We have cspan here so we have moved, is like working back there pretty somebody is running towards microphone. We have just one microphone read to ask question so, if you need access to this mike, or microphone, you can go around back there. I would welcome davi david quam, is come this evening to talk about his new book the spillover. It is the first time he has been here and hes in montana so i think that is why he has had written many books. Including some of the dodo which won a medal. Natural history writing. He has honorary degrees in Colorado College and Montana State university where he served as a professor of western american study read hes also won the National Magazine award three times for articles in a wide variety of magazines including ....
Back. I want to welcome david who has come this evening to talk about his new book the spillover. This is the first time david has been to politics and prose he has written many books including the son of the dodo that won the medal history writing. The honorary degrees from corrado college and Montana State university where he served as the lawless state professor of western american studies. Hes also won the National Magazine award three times for articles and a wide variety of magazines including esquire, the atlantic and Rolling Stone asserteathird of these were Fore National geographic story called was darwin wrong. Now he has the title contributing writer which requires them to write three articles per year. He describes them as evolutionary biology and conser ....
Host into its first human but them. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only replicate in animals, plants or some other kind of cellular creature. When a new virus appears in humans, it had to come from some other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a mammal or bird. When the virus passes from the nonhuman animal into its first human, that is the moment of spillover. Host hardly common . Are they common . Guest more common than we recognize. We have been recognizing more and more as they occur. Whenever there is a new virus it has to come from somewhere and there has been a drumbeat of these cases, spillovers of new viruses into humans, since the early 1960s. Possibly because there are more humans on the planet coming into contact with more animals and also because we are able to detect them more, we are studying them closely. Host can you tell us what is on the cover of the book . Guest there is a primate, i think it is a baboon, unleashing a terrifying ....
Virus that caused the covid pandemic. Host what is the scientific of the serengeti with your definition of a spillover . Friend nick nichols is guest it is the incident when a photographer . Of course. I would go off to wild places disease pathogen, for instance a and Great Stories about virus, passes from its nonhuman creatures and ecosystems and conservation and the people doing the work and living there. Now, i have taken 21 of those host into its first human but articles and use them as the them. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only basis for a book that i hope is replicate in animals, plants or a unifying book. Some other kind of cellular i have created a lot of new creature. When a new virus appears in humans, it had to come from some reporting on these stories, other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a written a new forward and mammal or bird. Afterward talking about what we mean by wildn ....