Title:
A memo from the year 2050: Here’s how we avoided the worst of zoonotic diseases
Author:
Brandon Keim, a freelance journalist specializing in animals, nature, and science. He is the author of The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories from the Living World (2017)
Published:
Anthropocene, August 2020
From this article:
Looking back at the early twenty-first century with the clarity of hindsight, it can be difficult to comprehend how societies with so much wealth, power, and knowledge could be so short-sighted and negligent about the threat of diseases emerging in animals and spreading to humans.