A strange thing happened as coronavirus reached Europe’s shores. Concepts like ‘net zero’ and ‘climate crisis’ which had previously dominated the agenda vanished overnight.
While the vast majority of people have accepted this change of tack in the fight against the virus, there have been some environmentalists who seem to be put out at seeing their cause shunted down the list of political priorities. Only this week, photos surfaced on Twitter of posters attributed to Extinction Rebellion (which denies any connection to what it calls a ‘fake account’) claiming that Covid-19 was an effective tool in reducing the size of the human race. ‘Corona is the cure, humans are the disease’, the placard said.
Others have attempted to find scientific reasons for why coronavirus is the result of humanity’s destruction of the planet. Last week, the Guardian published a piece suggesting that the loss of animal habitats was responsible for diseases like ebola and coronavirus spreading to humans.
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