Coronavirus shows us it’s time to rethink everything. Let's start with education | George Monbiot

The pandemic is a tough lesson in the workings of the natural world – and proves how vital a knowledge of ecology really isImagine mentioning William Shakespeare to a university graduate and discovering they had never heard of him. You would be incredulous. But it’s common and acceptable not to know what an arthropod is, or a vertebrate, or to be unable to explain the difference between an insect and spider. No one is embarrassed when a “well-educated” person cannot provi