A Turning Point for Planetary Health

“History has shown that governments tend to deprioritize environmental commitments during times of financial and public crises as they work to mitigate immediate needs—and the age of COVID-19 has been no different. Even though human interaction with wildlife is believed to be the cause of the pandemic, the focus on COVID-19’s fallout has deprioritized the importance of reversing the damage humans have done to the planet.”