Our exposure to new, deadly pathogens is yet another price we pay for our voracious appetite to consume. We seize habitats from other species, crowd them into ever-shrinking spaces, where viruses are forced to cross species boundaries https://t.co/fxGcbiClfW
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) March 20, 2020
Is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19?
— George Atherton (@notrehta) March 20, 2020
“The single biggest predictor of spillover events is land-use change—more land going to agriculture and more specifically to livestock production.”
—Dennis Carroll https://t.co/IxoatWD3RH
land-use: https://t.co/2pok3d9fQI * pic.twitter.com/CNXuAtQttt
“As with almost all disasters, the Covid-19 disaster is the outcome of human choices.”
—Ilan Kelman (archive)
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