In this whiteboard animation, I present 6 unexpected connections I have found between the coronavirus and sustainability, the environment and climate change. This video is about white-footed mice, speaking trees, opossums, humans and how our encroachment on nature increases the risks of a pandemic and decreases the capacity of the earth to sustain us.

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Articles:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/3/31/21199917/coronavirus-covid-19-animals-pandemic-environment-climate-biodiversity
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24042020/forest-trees-climate-change-deforestation
https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/amazon-rainforest-perishing-absorbing-less-co2-warning-climate-change-2072075
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coronavirus-set-to-cause-largest-ever-annual-fall-in-co2-emissions?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axiosedge&stream=business

Music & sound effects from https://www.epidemicsound.com/
Herd Of Cows Mooing by tdes on https://freesound.org

Photos:
Ashim D’Silva on Unsplash
ChadoNihi and 272447 on Pixabay
Amazon forest by NASA