點解沙士同禽流感與世貿有關?
為什麼因為我們在超市裡的水果沒有蟲蛀? 因為大量使用殺蟲水.
為什麼要使用大量殺蟲水? 因為要長途運輸, 把農產品運到國外.
為什麼要把農產品運動國外? 因為要賺取外滙.
為什麼要賺取外滙? 因為要買糧食.
為什麼要買糧食? 因為其他國家傾銷糧食, 買糧食比自己種平.
為什麼其他國家可以傾銷農產品? 因為世貿的貿易協定.
農產品商品化造成嚴重的生物多元化危機, 亦間接帶來了種種新的疾病:
全文來自路透社
OSLO, Norway - Better protection for the
diversity of the planet’s creatures and plants could help shield humans
from diseases like AIDS, Ebola or bird flu and save billions of dollars
in health care costs, researchers said on Tuesday.
They
said human disruptions to biodiversity -- from roads through the Amazon
jungle to deforestation in remote parts of Africa -- had made people
more exposed to new diseases that originate in wildlife.
“Biodiversity
not only stores the promise of new medical treatments and cures, it
buffers humans from organisms and agents that cause disease,”
scientists from the international group Diversitas said in a statement.
“Preventing emerging diseases through
biodiversity conservation is far more cost effective than developing
vaccines to combat them later,” they added.
Peter
Daszak, a scientist who helped find links between Asian bats and the
SARS virus, said the 2003 outbreak of the flu-like disease cost about
$50 billion, largely because it cut travel and trade from Asia. About
800 people died.
And
AIDS, widely believed to have originated in chimpanzees, killed an
estimated 3.1 million people in 2004. The United Nations estimates that
$15 billion will be needed for prevention, treatment and care in 2006
alone.
Diversitas
experts urged governments to work out policies to protect biodiversity,
including tougher regulations on trade, agriculture and travel to
reduce chances that diseases like avian flu can jump from wildlife to
people.
...
“The
value of services provided by nature and its diversity is
under-appreciated until they stop,” said Anne Larigauderie, executive
director of Paris-based Diversitas, a non-government organization.
She
said China had to employ people in some regions to pollinate apple
orchards because the overuse of pesticides had killed off bees. “It
maybe takes 10 people to do the work of two beehives,” she told Reuters...