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To advocate the culling of an endangered species isn’t just contrary to everything the National Park Service stands for; it’s contrary to what humans, as part of a vanishing world, should be ultimately working towards.
Spillover was published in 2012, and its predictions were eerily accurate. Tracing the zoonotic episodes of Nipah, Ebola, Marburg, and even AIDS, among other diseases, Spillover pounded the evidence into one clear, bold, daunting statement: we will have another pandemic. And it will be because of us.
The impacts of one crisis can’t be allowed to cascade into and magnify another. Solving the coronavirus pandemic with hasty, short-term measures will only aggravate the effects of a longer, less noticeable, but just as notable crisis.
If you think life is important, you should be taking action against climate change. If you are remotely a good person, you should be trying to change your ways. If you don’t care, at least pretend. The earth begs you to.