If we look back in history we will find that human greed has accompanied us for a very long time now. Be it greed for more power, more money, more followers, or more resources, we humans never fail to destroy rather ‘utilize’ anything and everything to its core, which usually ends up getting extinct or defunct. We belong from an era that might call creative self-destruction. In the same manner that diamond cuts diamond, we humans cut others in order to boot up what we already have. But here's the thing, we might have pushed our environment too far. What if our greed is responsible for this situation we are in?
Our generation has never experienced anything like COVID-19 before, one virus that has locked down almost the whole world. Now that roads are often ‘car-free’, the pollution has reduced and we see elephants roaming in the roads of Dehradun or leopards walking inside and out a mosque in Hyderabad which simply implies the fact that this planet belongs to others as well.
This virus is said to have originated from a bat; all of us must have cursed that bat a million times but aren’t we at fault. We have been manipulating forests and animals for our profit for so many years. Invading their ecosystem for our antics has finally backfired. Every time we have disturbed the ecosystem, it has led to new pathogens to occur; a new virus, be it MERS, SARS, Ebola, HIV or even COVID-19 has originated as the virus jumps from animals to humans.
Human species with zero respect for other species and even for other human beings is at the root of this pandemic and many more pandemics to come. Scientists claim that if we don’t stop this anthropogenic war between earth and humans then one day we humans will become extinct whereas earth will continue to evolve with or without us. We need to come out of this delusional world we live in, in which humans are the strongest.
Even during this pandemic, we see how greedy humans are by hoarding up on grocery supplies. We need to understand that greed for anything will not end well for us. Just like humans didn’t give time to nature to replenish, the same way COVID-19 is also not giving time to humans to arrange land for burials. Ours and every human's greed led to this pandemic.
- Shivpriya for India Against COVID
Our generation has never experienced anything like COVID-19 before, one virus that has locked down almost the whole world. Now that roads are often ‘car-free’, the pollution has reduced and we see elephants roaming in the roads of Dehradun or leopards walking inside and out a mosque in Hyderabad which simply implies the fact that this planet belongs to others as well.
This virus is said to have originated from a bat; all of us must have cursed that bat a million times but aren’t we at fault. We have been manipulating forests and animals for our profit for so many years. Invading their ecosystem for our antics has finally backfired. Every time we have disturbed the ecosystem, it has led to new pathogens to occur; a new virus, be it MERS, SARS, Ebola, HIV or even COVID-19 has originated as the virus jumps from animals to humans.
Human species with zero respect for other species and even for other human beings is at the root of this pandemic and many more pandemics to come. Scientists claim that if we don’t stop this anthropogenic war between earth and humans then one day we humans will become extinct whereas earth will continue to evolve with or without us. We need to come out of this delusional world we live in, in which humans are the strongest.
Even during this pandemic, we see how greedy humans are by hoarding up on grocery supplies. We need to understand that greed for anything will not end well for us. Just like humans didn’t give time to nature to replenish, the same way COVID-19 is also not giving time to humans to arrange land for burials. Ours and every human's greed led to this pandemic.
- Shivpriya for India Against COVID
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