{"id":8809,"date":"2020-03-26T08:39:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T05:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:57","slug":"coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/26\/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: &#8216;Nature Is Sending Us A Message\u2019, Says UN Environment Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, according to the UN\u2019s environment chief, Inger Andersen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andersen said humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world with damaging consequences, and warned that failing to take care of the planet meant not taking care of ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading scientists also said the Covid-19 outbreak was a \u201cclear warning shot\u201d, given that far more deadly diseases existed in wildlife, and that today\u2019s civilisation was \u201cplaying with fire\u201d. They said it was almost always human behaviour that caused diseases to spill over into humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To prevent further outbreaks, the experts said, both global heating and the destruction of the natural world for farming, mining and housing have to end, as both drive wildlife into contact with people. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/mar\/25\/coronavirus-nature-is-sending-us-a-message-says-un-environment-chief\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, according to the UN\u2019s environment chief, Inger Andersen. Andersen said humanity was placing too many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}