"Finding ways for people to live inside nature reserves, rather than trying to keep people out with walls, can help preserve biodiverse habitats overall." Our

"Finding ways for people to live inside nature reserves, rather than trying to keep people out with walls, can help preserve biodiverse habitats overall." Our immediate call to action (as yet another zoonotic disease threatens to infect _every_ urban civilization on earth) is for all people, particularly in major cities, to disperse to their homes, and isolate from groups of more than a 10 or so people. And do this for many months (up to 18 months if I read the ICL/Ferguson paper correctly). And that's just for _this_ virus. Expect another in 10-20 years. I'm beginning to think that urban life, with all its benefits, may not be worth it in the long run. Specifically, I'm informed by James C. Scott's recent "Against the Grain" ("Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states?"), and also by Daniel E. Lieberman's "The Story of the Human Body", particularly his chapter on farming and the resultant explosion in fertility (due to women having babies every 2 years instead of the 4 years of our paleo hunter/gatherer mothers). I will say the most (only?) delightful thing to observe is the lessening of so much political bullshit. Trump looked absolutely petrified in his speech last week.