Misguided Misanthropy: Why the “Humans are the Virus” Mindset is Damaging to the Environmental Movement
We’ve all seen the tweets lately: “Humans are the real virus!” “The earth is healing in our absence” and so on. Their message is clear: humans are a plague on the earth and the current COVID-19 pandemic is a form of reckoning. Not only are some of these tweets just plain wrong, …