GREGUŠ, Jan. Pandemics and Populations. The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care, 2021. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2020.1870952.
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Original name Pandemics and Populations
Authors GREGUŠ, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition 2021.
Publisher The European Journal of Contraception & Reproductive Health Care
Other information
Original language English
Type of outcome Survey and educational texts
Field of Study 60302 Ethics
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/21:00121126
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2020.1870952
UT WoS 000616226000001
Keywords in English pandemics; populations; COVID-19; overpopulation; population growth; environmental degradation
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: RNDr. Pavel Šmerk, Ph.D., učo 3880. Changed: 31/5/2022 12:27.
Abstract
This paper discusses the connection between pandemics and populations. It points out that new disease outbreaks of pandemic scale are a near mathematical certainty and that their origins can be traced back to human overpopulation, which – in tandem with the overexploitation of nature – facilitates the emergence and spread of infectious diseases like COVID-19. The paper also underlines the threat of exponential growth, both in the cases of the COVID-19 pandemic and the human ‘pandemic’ (or ongoing rapid human population growth, however one calls it). Similarities of exponential growth between both pandemics can help humans to realize the later they start acting, the more draconic measures they must put into play. The paper concludes by stating that if humans want to stop and prevent other pandemics to come, they and the policy-makers must address the drivers and risks of pandemic diseases, i.e., human populations.
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MUNI/A/1157/2020, interní kód MUName: Aspekty soudobé filozofie III
Investor: Masaryk University
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