Why adopt a virus before it adopts us?
Audio 48:30
Viruses from animals to humans © BirdHunter591 / iStock
By: Caroline Lachowsky
51 mins
How viruses and microbes pass from animals to humans?
And why is it absurd to think of eradicating them?
How can we change our approach to put our lives and biodiversity back at the center?
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Let us question ourselves and our relationship to other living beings on Earth with whom we share much more than we think: in this case, the permanent and perpetual exchange of microbes and other viruses. Difficult to escape in times of pandemic, and frankly absurd to still believe that we are the strongest, capable of eradicating nasty germs or of escaping diseases transmissible from animals to humans and so on. ..
And if we had to radically change our point of view and even our path, as Edgar Morin, a great thinker of complexity, tirelessly repeats, to realize that the emergence of this pandemic is also our responsibility (linked to the acceleration from our globalization, to the boom in our economy, to the systematic destruction of ecosystems and biodiversity).
What if we had no other choice but to do otherwise to relearn how to live together and no longer above all other living beings?
With
François Moutou
, veterinarian and former epidemiologist at the National Health Security Agency, for his new book
Adopte un virus.com, when microbes pass from animals to humans,
published by Delachaux and Niestlé.
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