{"id":183723,"date":"2025-10-01T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183723\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T23:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T23:44:07","slug":"jane-goodall-dies-chimpanzee-expert-and-environmental-advocates-final-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/183723\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Goodall dies: Chimpanzee expert and environmental advocate\u2019s final message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while doing what she\u2019s done for most of her later years \u2014 touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">Goodall, who revolutionized what we know about chimpanzees and animal intelligence, was interviewed as recently as last week, during New York City Climate Week. And her message was clear, consistent, and timely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">\u201cIt seems these days everybody is so involved with technology that we forget that we\u2019re not only part of the natural world, we\u2019re an animal like all the others,\u201d Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute, a conservation group, said last week during the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit in NYC. \u201cWe\u2019re an animal like all the others. But we depend on it for clean air, water, food, clothing \u2014 everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">And yet \u2014 \u201cWe\u2019re destroying the planet,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">In a separate conversation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/video\/is-jane-goodall-fighting-a-losing-battle\/CFEF01A0-6166-4EEB-95E0-AFD4EC0F39C2?mod=mhp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with the Wall Street Journal<\/a> last week, Goodall said the problem is the pernicious idea that economic development should come before the environment. In reality, we\u2019re on a planet with finite resources, and if we exhaust them, it could spell our own end. \u201cHumans are not exempt from extinction,\u201d Goodall said in the Wall Street Journal\u2019s podcast, The Journal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">One of the most compelling messages from her last interviews is that while we\u2019re the most \u201cintellectual animals\u201d to ever walk the planet, \u201cwe\u2019re not intelligent,\u201d said Goodall, who\u2019s an expert in animal behavior. \u201cBecause intelligent creatures don\u2019t destroy their only home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 xkp0cg1\">Ultimately, she said, it\u2019s that intellect that gives us the best shot at saving ourselves and the planet. That\u2019s what\u2019s ushered in solutions to living in greater harmony with the natural world, Goodall said, including renewable energy and plant-based foods. She emphasized that we know what\u2019s killing the planet: industrial agriculture, including livestock, and burning fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1agbrixi lg8ac51 lg8ac50 lg8ac5a xkp0cg1\">\u201cWe have a window of time,\u201d Goodall, who\u2019s authored more than two dozen books, said in The Journal. \u201cBut it\u2019s not a very big window. If we don\u2019t change the way we do things, the way we develop economically, then it will be too late.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while doing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,2848,22949,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-183723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-climate","11":"tag-down-to-earth","12":"tag-environment","13":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}