In case you couldn’t be there in person, here’s the podcast of last week’s talk I gave at the University of Adelaide’s Research Tuesdays seminar series – A world of hurt. The true global death count of environmental degradation.
View video here. See also the ‘Between the Buttons’ preamble AudioBoo here.
Just a quick link to an AudioBoo sound bite preamble about my University of Adelaide‘s Research Tuesdays talk tonight on the human health implications of environmental degradation. Follows on nicely from last week’s ‘environmental reprobates‘ post. Full podcast of talk to come shortly.
Many thanks to Allan and Ian of ‘Between the Buttons‘.
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