We await on antibiotics to amusement aggregate from abdomen bugs to bark rashes to bronchitis. In fact, we’ve been overusing themâ€"and in accomplishing so giving acceleration to new crop of alarming bacterial infections that can’t be advised by annihilation we can get at the pharmacy. The added we use antibiotics, the added we advice these superbugs body up their resistance. It’s an evolutionary battle, and the bodies are losing. The projections are dire: according to some experts, antibiotic-resistant bacilli could annihilate 10 actor bodies a year by 2050, before blight deaths.
With their backs to the wall, scientists are now antagonism to acquisition new accustomed sources of anti-bacterial compounds. VICE’s Thomas Morton campaign forth as they chase abysmal in the boscage and abysmal underground for the life-saving drugs we so badly need.
Then: palm oil is acclimated in about all of the foods we eat and best of our domiciliary productsâ€"everything from packaged aliment to accolade to toothpaste and soap. Assembly of palm oil has surged as a bargain another to auto fats. But as appeal grows, growers in Indonesia are blame further and further assimilate rainforest land, torching the forests as they go. The mass-burning of Indonesian jungles poses a above blackmail to wildlife, aboriginal populations, and our all-around climate.
VICE’s Ben Anderson goes to Indonesia to see the realities of the palm oil bang up close.
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