Dr. Jane Goodall, 86, British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, says we are to blame for this pandemic.
"Hopefully there will be more understanding of the fact that it's our messing with nature, cutting down forests, bringing people and animals close together, hunting animals and eating them, and selling them that's led to these viruses spreading from animals to people..."
She "argued that destroying habitats has forced animals into closer proximity, spreading diseases — and ultimately infecting humans."
She said the deadly crisis also highlights the dangers of “meat markets for wild animals in Asia, especially China, and our intensive farms where we cruelly crowd together billions of animals around the world.”
“These are the conditions that create an opportunity for the viruses to jump from animals across the species barrier to humans,” she told AFP.
"If these conditions, and especially the cruelty of the meat markets where wild animals are forced into tiny cages and sold for food or pets, that's happening in many different countries around the world and it's those conditions that have led to viruses jumping from an animal species to a human. There's a lot known about this now, how it happens, and of course, in some cases, it's led to something like COVID-19. SARS is another example of a virus that began in a wet market in China," Goodall said in a telephonic interview to IANSLife, while she is sheltering in England.
All of the above from various sources online, and all of what she has said echoes my own view on the origin of this virus.
