Is COVID-19 a Message from Nature?

IF 1.1 4区 哲学 Q3 ETHICS
Nanoethics Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Epub Date: 2020-05-28 DOI:10.1007/s11569-020-00370-8
John Weckert
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Abstract

Claims have been made that the current COVID-19 pandemic is a message from nature to stop exploiting the earth to the extent that we have been. While there is no direct evidence that this pandemic is a result of human actions with respect to the earth, ample evidence exists that deforestation and other environmental changes, together with climate change, do make it more likely that viruses will cross from wildlife to humans. We humans are mammals and our welfare depends on the health of the earth. We are not so different from other living creatures in this regard. It is in our interests to look after the earth, something that Indigenous Australians knew well. Mother Earth must be cared for if she is to care for us. Nature perhaps is sending us a message in the same sense that my car does if I do not maintain it. It stops functioning properly. We have to modify nature to satisfy our needs but we must be careful how we modify it.

COVID-19是来自大自然的信息吗?
有人声称,当前的COVID-19大流行是大自然发出的信息,要求我们停止像以往那样剥削地球。虽然没有直接证据表明这次大流行是人类对地球采取行动的结果,但有充分证据表明,森林砍伐和其他环境变化,加上气候变化,确实使病毒更有可能从野生动物传播给人类。我们人类是哺乳动物,我们的福祉取决于地球的健康。在这方面,我们与其他生物并没有太大的不同。保护地球符合我们的利益,这是澳大利亚土著居民所熟知的。如果地球母亲要照顾我们,我们就必须照顾她。大自然也许是在向我们传递一种信息,就像我的车如果我不保养它所传递的信息一样。它停止正常工作。我们必须改变自然以满足我们的需要,但我们必须小心我们如何改变它。
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Nanoethics
Nanoethics HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-
CiteScore
2.90
自引率
7.70%
发文量
18
期刊介绍: NanoEthics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale will focus on the philosophically and scientifically rigorous examination of the ethical and societal considerations and the public and policy concerns inherent in nanotechnology research and development. These issues include both individual and societal problems, and include individual health, wellbeing and human enhancement, human integrity and autonomy, distribution of the costs and benefits, threats to culture and tradition and to political and economic stability. Additionally there are meta-issues including the neutrality or otherwise of technology, designing technology in a value-sensitive way, and the control of scientific research.
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