---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jonathan Latham <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:13 AM Subject: Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak To: [email protected] Dear Friends and Colleagues Published Today (July 27th 2015) in *Independent Science News* *Neoliberal Ebola: The Agroeconomic Origins of the Ebola Outbreak* by Rob Wallace, PhD http://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/neoliberal-ebola-the-agroeconom... *Synopsis:* The West African Ebola virus outbreak of 2014/2015 killed over 11,000 people. The outbreak has been assumed in the Western media and elsewhere to be caused by a novel Ebola virus strain. The scientific evidence, however, does not suggest the strain responsible is in anyway unusual. So, if not the virus itself, what else might explain the outbreak? The regions affected by Ebola are undergoing environmental disruption, social upheaval and often impoverishment as a result of land use changes and "investment." Funded by European and other international sources, large parts of West Africa are being transformed by landgrabbing, systematic plunder and forest decimation. However, this agroeconomic story has been lost from most media accounts. This is profoundly unfortunate. Not only is it an important story in its own right, it is also a better explanation of the origins of the Ebola outbreak. Equally crucially, it has implications for agriculture and the prevention of future disease outbreaks worldwide. The author is an evolutionary biologist and public health phylogeographer currently visiting the Institute of Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. Please share Best wishes Jonathan Jonathan Latham, PhD Executive Director The Bioscience Resource Project Ithaca, NY 14850 USA www.independentsciencenews.org and www.bioscienceresource.org [email protected] Skype: jonathanlatham2 Tel: 1-607-319-0279 “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country.”—Edward Bernays, Propaganda _______________________________________________ BSR-project-elist1 mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.gn.apc.org/mailman/listinfo/bsr-project-elist1 To unsubscribe, email [email protected] -- Check out the Commons Transition Plan here at: http://commonstransition.org P2P Foundation: http://p2pfoundation.net - http://blog.p2pfoundation.net <http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation>Updates: http://twitter.com/mbauwens; http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens #82 on the (En)Rich list: http://enrichlist.org/the-complete-list/