Jane Goodall hopes pandemic creates movement 'of people who've never before breathed clean air in c

[babylonsister]

Jane Goodall hopes pandemic creates movement 'of people who've never before breathed clean air in cities'
By John Bowden - 04/20/20 03:58 PM EDT


British primatologist and conservationist Jane Goodall said that she hopes a global movement of people calling for clean air will result from the global coronavirus outbreak, which has emptied cities of traffic.

In an interview with The Associated Press ahead of the launch of her new documentary, Goodall explained that images of cities such as Los Angeles with pristine skylines due to reduced smog levels could inspire Americans and others to have more respect for their environment.

"Hopefully we should emerge wiser [after the coronavirus pandemic ends]," Goodall told the AP.

"I think there will be greater awareness of how we brought this pandemic on ourselves and that people will change. I hope there’s a groundswell of enough millions of people who’ve never before breathed clean air in cities, who’ve never been able to look up at night and see a clear sky with twinkling stars," she continued. "I hope that they’ll be enough of them to eventually force big business and politicians to ... stop carrying on with business as usual."

Goodall went on in the interview to call for wealthier people to recognize that they will need to live less lavishly in order to preserve the Earth's natural resources in a sustainable manner.

"Already, in some cases, we’re using up natural resources before nature can replenish them," Goodall explained. "So we cannot expect to survive very far into the future unless we make some change. ... We have to learn to do with less in the wealthier sections of society. Most of us have far more than we actually need."

"We need a different way of thinking about things. We need to realize that unlimited economic development on a world with finite natural resources and growing human populations can’t work," she said.

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/493734-jane-goodall-hopes-pandemic-creates-movement-of-people-whove-never

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I've been thinking the same.

[Demsrule86]

3. Not me...we have economic collapse and thousands are dead perhaps millions before it is over.

There is no silver lining...and I say fuck Jane Goodall and others who say shit like this...how is she any different that those who are willing to kill people for Wall street?

[stillcool]

9. what is it she is saying you find so offensive?

The dead are still going to be dead, and the economic collapse isn't going to get worse because of a little thinking.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

11. Wish people would read the articles instead of going off on what they THINK it said....

If the rebuilding after the economic collapse includes non polluting green technologies....wheres the problem in that?

How is she different? Seriously?



And while we're throwing the f word around let me just say fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

[Guilded Lilly]

2. Clean air has been one of those Silver Linings in a huge storm cloud

[Demsrule86]

4. You can't eat air or pay your mortgage with air.

[Guilded Lilly]

6. ...I stand by my statement.

[llmart]

10. Jane Goodall has always been a passionate conservationist.

She was specifically talking about how the wealthier need to rethink their consumption habits and I happen to agree with her. Human beings need a roof over their heads and healthy food to eat and good water to drink along with clean air to breathe. What they don't need are gold toilets, $500 steak dinners, 8,000 square foot houses, etc.

What she's hoping is that more people begin to understand that clean air and water are more important than the Hummers and big ass SUV's for a family of three.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

13. Id rather eat and pay my mortgage while breathing clean air -why cant we have THAT? Makes no sense.

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[malaise]

5. What I want to see this year is the data for allergy related illnesses

and in particular asthma attacks

[pattyloutwo]

7. Great article

Thanks for posting; I really admire her lifetime of work. I hope this climate experiment spurs major changes. It shows what can be possible and that we need drastically different policies.

[mathematic]

8. Goodall can go fuck herself with this. Covid-19 is not some retribution for living a modern life.

This pandemic is not your "back to nature" political cause. Covid-19 was not caused by pollution. Covid-19 was not caused by resource depletion.

Responsible leadership in China would have stopped this.

Responsible leadership in the UK would have contained this in the UK.

Responsible leadership in the US would have contained this in the US.

It's messed up that people think the way she thinks, spinning the pandemic to promote their entirely unrelated political causes.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

12. She has done some amazing work over the course of her career.

She also talks like an ecofascist sometimes, which sucks.

[bdamomma]

14. We

need the trump oligarchs gone. Period