Let Earth Breathe
Coronavirus has taken from us in four months; but it has given back cleaner air and the sweet taste of an environment without so much industrial pollution.
All over the world wild animals are invading towns and cities that are quiet.
A Canadian friend of mine who lives in the suburbs saw a coyote on a morning walk and a porcupine in her neighbours garden a day later. It seems so unlikely it doesn’t sound real.
So many things don’t sound real any more.
Yes, this will be the time of viruses. When Covid-19 is kicked in the teeth there will be another, and another, and another which could be far more transmissible until the fabric of society will be torn and changed. We have to master how to limit this pandemic and immediately prepare for not just the next wave, but the next new pandemic.
Mount Everest can be seen from Bihar, which is 300km away, a place it hasn’t been clear from before. That it itself offers us a taste of what our brave new world can look like.
We must preserve animal habitat, we must halt the actions of climate change and we must put a stop to global warming. We have to restore ecology so the environment can breathe again, not just while we’re in lock down, but permanently.
Humanity might depend on it.
