That warm buzzy feeling: malaria and climate change

那股温暖的嗡嗡感:疟疾与气候变化

Economist Podcasts

2025-08-25

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As temperatures climb, mosquitoes will migrate to places where natural resistance to malaria is lower. More and more severe natural disasters will make for more breeding grounds. How to stop a deadly disease getting deadlier? In China’s cut-throat food-delivery war, absolutely no one wins. And Florida gamifies its efforts to cull pythons. Get a world of insights by subscribing to Economist Podcasts+. For more information about how to access Economist Podcasts+, please visit our FAQs page or watch our video explaining how to link your account. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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  • The Economist.

  • Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

  • I'm your host, Jason Palmer.

  • Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

  • It is increasingly cheap to get food delivered and fast in China, worryingly so.

  • As restaurants join the race to the bottom,

  • the little guys are shuddering, the drivers are getting more reckless,

  • and one can't quite be sure that's pork in the pork fried rice.

  • And in Florida, you can get paid 50 bucks for the first four feet and 25 for every foot after that.

  • Bricklaying?

  • Rope-making?

  • Nope.

  • Python hunting.

  • The snakes are ravaging other wildlife in the Everglades, and the state is gamifying their capture.

  • But first...

  • Climate change is affecting Africa in many ways.

  • Not only are temperatures rising, the weather's growing more extreme,

  • droughts are getting worse, floods and cyclones are growing more intense.

  • Robert Guest is a deputy editor at The Economist.

  • And all this... will change how diseases spread.