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Jane Goodall: We Can Learn from This Pandemic

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Scientific American

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4.2639 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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In a teleconference promoting her participation in Earth Day events on the National Geographic Channel, Goodall talked about what gives her hope during the pandemic and what she hopes we all learn from it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Steve Merski.

0:39.3

And with this coronavirus, the hopeful thing is how communities, individuals have got together by helping each other.

0:47.8

That is Jane Goodall during a teleconference last week. Wednesday, April 22nd, is the 50th Earth Day, and on Wednesday,

0:56.5

Goodall will take part in day-long programming on the National Geographic Channel. During the

1:01.6

teleconference last week, she was asked, what gives her hope during this pandemic?

1:06.1

The incredible courage of the people on the front line, the doctors, the nurses, the nurses, risking and sometimes losing their lives.

1:13.6

And of course we shall get through this.

1:16.6

And the big hope is that this time we will pay attention to the cause of the pandemic,

1:22.6

which is our disrespect of nature and the animals and the destruction of the environment

1:28.6

forcing animals in the closer contact with each other and some of them with humans,

1:33.8

the trafficking, the hunting, the killing, the wet markets,

1:37.7

the intensive animal farms, domestic animals,

1:41.1

and all of that is creating conditions for a virus to jump from one species to another.

1:48.0

Girol was also asked how she hoped the world might change because of the pandemic.

1:54.0

How I hope it will change and how it changes are two different things in this particular case. I think probably millions of

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