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https://therevelator.org/biodiversity-health-pandemics/
Just dashed off a letter to the Bard College professor cited in this
article:
Hi, Felicia
On FB today, Jeff St. Clair, the editor of Counterpunch, posted a link
to the article that cites you on the connection between the loss of
biodiversity and COVID-19.
I graduated from Bard in 1965 and am the film editor of Counterpunch
magazine. I am 75 and living under lock-down in NYC. Last October, I had
acute bronchitis for most of the month. Needless to say, I am scared to
death.
I totally agree with your analysis but I have to confess my misgivings
about how Bard is a sort of Jekyll-Hyde when it comes to Green issues.
Leon is principled enough to hire idealistic professors but unprincipled
enough to keep someone like Stewart Resnick on the board of trustees. As
you probably know, Resnick and his wife Linda are two of the most
ravenous consumers of water in California that is needed for their
pistachios and "wonderful" pomegranates they advertised as a cancer
cure, kind of like Alex Jones touting silver as a cure for COVID-19.
When they are not using up so much water that farmworkers near their
spread cannot flush a toilet, they are also draining the water from Fiji
for their upscale tonic water geared to celebrities. To have their way,
they pour millions into buying DP politicians like Diane Feinstein and
rely on the Fiji military goons to protect their assets.
To put it bluntly, they are the opposite side of the coin of the Koch
brothers. The Kochs destroy habitat in pursuit of oil profits while the
Resnicks do the same thing for "healthy" nuts and water.
Anyhow, this has nothing to do with your important work. It is just my
cri de coeur over a capitalist system that penetrates and poisons every
sphere of public life, including my alma mater.
Louis Proyect
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