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Chris Packham: 'Finding the good in the bad' of Covid-19
Environmental campaigner and naturalist Chris Packham talks about 'finding the good in the bad' in the pandemic, and the opportunity for new sustainable economies to emerge.
The Covid-19 pandemic has inflicted huge economic damage, but it has also offered the natural world a little bit of respite – room to breathe. What will come next? Will it be a return to the old ways of resource exploitation and consumption? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Chris Packham, one of the UK’s best-known naturalists and environmental campaigners. Are we humans capable of fundamentally changing our priorities?
Photo: Chris Packham Credit: BBC
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