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In October 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet in China to adopt a new post-2020 global biodiversity framework to reverse biodiversity loss and its impacts on ecosystems, species and people. The conference is being held during a moment of great urgency: According to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we now have less than 10 years to halve our greenhouse gas emissions to stave off catastrophic climate change. At the same time, climate change is exacerbating the accelerating biodiversity crisis. Half of the planetâs species may face extinction by the end of this century.
And tragically, according to a UN report, âthe world has failed to meet a single target to stem the destruction of wildlife and life-sustaining ecosystems in the last decade.â
Everyone loves laughing. It brings us joy, heals us, and brings us together like nothing else. The world indeed needs more laughter, and they say that laughter cures all ills. Yet what if the illness itself is laughter? What if you just started laughing one day and could not stop until you were incapacitated? They say laughter is contagious, and indeed Charles Dickens once famously said “There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter,” but what if this was all quite literal, and that it could be a type of disease? That is what seemed to happen in one remote African village back in 1962, when people began breaking out into a contagious laughter that would not stop, and go on to become a true modern mystery.