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Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins

Dismantling the environmental theory for Covid’s origins

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

28 August 2021

9:00 AM

With a laboratory leak in Wuhan looking more and more likely as the source of the pandemic, the Chinese authorities are not the only ones dismayed. Western environmentalists had been hoping to turn the pandemic into a fable about humankind’s brutal rape of Gaia. Even if ‘wet’ wildlife markets and smuggled pangolins were exonerated in this case, they argued, and the outbreak came from some direct contact with bats, the moral lesson was ecological.

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