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If china allows those wet markets again I hope there will be international efforts to sabotage those markets, and even have sanctions on china if they do nothin
by jokoon 7y ago
If china allows those wet markets again I hope there will be international efforts to sabotage those markets, and even have sanctions on china if they do nothing to fight against those practices.
I've heard those farmers who breed those animals lobbied the chinese government to allow those farms. So in the end, they will not prevent those practices entirely. So it might happen again in a region where the government have less control. That's the scary part.
It's eye-opening that unscientific beliefs are actually endangering lives. It was true for anti-vax, but now we have reached a stage when ignorance reached a new stage of dangerosity.
- illumin8 7y agoIt's more than wet markets, although those are obviously dangerous. It's the continued expansion of human population into rainforests and other wildlife areas: > Yes. EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO, and others, looked at all reported outbreaks since 1940. They came to a fairly solid conclusion that we’re looking at an elevation of spillover events two to three times more than what we saw 40 years earlier. That continues to increase, driven by the huge increase in the human population and our expansion into wildlife areas. The single biggest predictor of spillover events is land-use change—more land going to agriculture and more specifically to livestock production. This is not going to be fixed easily. Everything from the deforestation of the Brazilian rainforest to Chinese population growth is driving it.