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    WRITERS’ CIRCLE

    Apr 08, 2020 3 minutes

    NATURAL

    ALAN LEVINOVITZ

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    As fears about coronavirus and climate change intensify, it’s easy to feel like we are being punished by nature for our unnatural activities. Dense urban centres, an interconnected globe, high population, overconsumption… isn’t the problem that we are drifting too far from how nature wants us to live?

    But framing our problems, and their solutions, as natural vs unnatural is counterproductive and dangerous, just as it has always been. In , readers will see how this approach is religious, not scientific, by substituting nature

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