Alot is being said, written and talked about the COVID-19 pandemic from conspiracy theories to stating it as the start of the 'End of Times' for the World. Whatever it is, but this global pandemic has made one thing clear that we (Anthropocene’, the age of man, a term proposed by Paul Crutzen) have indeed damaged the planet Earth the most amongst all the epoch era's of the past. The world, has indeed seen drastic changes over the last few years being witnessed in the form of climatic change, global warming, melting of glaciers, deforestation, famine, drought, floods etc, which are common features of our present World we live in due to various factors such as population growth, usage and burning of fossil fuel, making mega cities, destruction of forests, overfishing, hunting animals to the verge of extinction etc.
Humanity, has indeed recovered from various pandemics inflected upon it in the past, we need to understand that nature has its own way of combating this global impact of Anthropocene due to our extreme ways of exploitative behaviors of the last 50 years or so, which can be seen by this recent Global Pandemic that has ensured that the world gets the required rest it needs in order for it to continue living. Signs of recovery has been recently seen all over the world, but all would be ineffective if we continue or even worse accelerate the rate of consumption faster than before.
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Although much research needs to be undertaken on these small positive environmental impact/s that we have witnessed and seen in the past few days due to the lockdown of almost of the 1 billion people of the world due to COVID-19.
COVID-19, has made this World much closer than we had ever imagined in a more spiritual way, as it does not matter where you are in the world, whether rich or poor, living in a mega city or a hamlet, young or old, this unseen virus has made it evident that we all need to reexamine our way of life in a holistic way, living a fast pace life in a digital world not realizing that by each passing day we lose much of our family and when we realize it what we have lost usually it is too late for us all.
COVID-19, has made this World much closer than we had ever imagined in a more spiritual way, as it does not matter where you are in the world, whether rich or poor, living in a mega city or a hamlet, young or old, this unseen virus has made it evident that we all need to reexamine our way of life in a holistic way, living a fast pace life in a digital world not realizing that by each passing day we lose much of our family and when we realize it what we have lost usually it is too late for us all.
In these testing time, I can only say that no matter which faith, sect, caste or creed any of us belong to, we must rise above it all and cherish the blessing that have been bestowed upon us. One cannot predict how much longer we (Humans) have time remaining in this world but the key to the future lies in rediscovering ourselves, learning lessons from our past and try to co-exist in complete harmony with nature.
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