Weekly Column

We Are Not the Virus. We Are the Kamikazes.

Covid-19 may be our final, last-gasp revolt

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I understand why environmentalists have concluded that Covid-19 is nature’s way of repelling human activity. If we’re going to keep mucking around with Earth’s biodiversity, climate, topsoil, oceans, and air, eventually nature’s going to respond. In this view, the virus…