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No, destruction of the environment did not cause the coronavirus pandemic
This position holds that the destruction of nature did not cause the Covid-19 pandemic. It argues that, devastating as the virus is, its origins lie elsewhere — in the wildlife trade — and that pandemics simply happen periodically, independent of human environmental damage.
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- Pandemics happenThe Plague and Spanish influenza, two incredibly devastating diseases for the human population, are just a small fraction of pandemics that have swept the globe throughout all of human history. Most of the major world pandemics have occurred before the Industrial Revolution and the invention of automobiles, so there is no feasible correlation between human impact on the environment and prevalence of pandemics.
- The wildlife trade caused the pandemicThe trading of illegal wildlife is worth over a billion dollars. It was this that caused the pandemic, not the destruction of the environment.