UNDERLYING CAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC: HUMANITY
Just one and a half years ago, we were faced with a virus called Covid-19, and unfortunately most of us didn’t know why it broke out. In the first place, some people thought it was a biological gun which was made in a laboratory, but it turned out that it wasn’t. It actually was a reponse from nature to humanity. Human activities all over the world have destroyed the Earth, our home. That is why nature gave us a message with catastrophes like pandemic, locust swarm, fires and floods.
Almost all of the disasters originate from the destruction of nature. We lost millions of trees and bush in total in the Australian, Siberian and Amazon fires. Plus, it is not over yet. We are continuing to increase global warming day by day. Experts say this upcoming year may be the hottest. Therefore, climate attributable risks did and will intersect with the Covid-19 crisis all around the world.
We use up earth’s natural resources, and Covid-19 is one of the most destructive outcomes of this. Let us take a closer look, as I said, since we destroy the forests, it gives wild animals more opportunities to contact more people. Hence, we can say that a possible pandemic crisis is more likely to happen in the places which are deforested. As a matter of fact, not just deforestation, there are lots of reasons such as factory farming, pollution, or climate change. Like Hubert Reeves said once, ‘’We are at war with nature. If we win it, we are lost’’.
Nevertheless, it is never too late when we want to change something. It is time that we all need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves what we do to stop the destruction of our own home, and what can we do to rescue it? After that, our decisions should be made according to this. Small steps are the way to make big changes. For instance, we can purchase from nature friendly stores or firms, we can be careful or warn people about wasting water… Most importantly, we should know the more we change the environment, the more likely we are to disrupt ecosystems and provide opportunities for a disease to emerge.
