wanton dwarf
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Tis only the draft. I tarose form an initiative proposed in part by a certain Boris Johnson, which may be enough to damn it in some people's eyes, after the shambolic response to COVID 19.
Like it or not most countries have already signed treaties to address the causes of climate change, so no change there.
Land use change/biodiversity loss does not mean rewilding - in the context of infectious diseases changes in these factors affecyts the likelihood of more human-wildlife contact so that, say monkey viruses may get in to people more often as jungles are cleared. There is an intention to address that, but not a secret plan to broadly rewild populated areas.
According to the UK parliament the treaty intends to:
The main goal of this treaty would be to foster an all of government and all of
society approach, strengthening national, regional and global capacities and
resilience to future pandemics. This includes greatly enhancing international
co-operation to improve, for example, alert systems, data-sharing, research
and local, regional and global production and distribution of medical and
public health counter-measures such as vaccines, medicines, diagnostics and
personal protective equipment.
I expect the vaccine part will upset the usual parties but in truth vaccines remain the safest most cost effective way of managing infectious diseases and have done to 150 years.
Hmmm, personally I wouldn't say anything about the Covid-19 vaccines being either good or bad - other than they were not subject to the standard industry testing regime - something which WHO & others are looking to reduce in the future as well.
I won't be taking another one though given what I have read & experienced.
Lots of problems being highlighted and investigated - latest one is the contamination with Simian Virus DNA which is known to cause cancer.
USA will probably lead the way with legal cases, fines & convictions.