Humans, since forever, have been exploiting the environment in variety of ways. The growing human hunger has led to an increase in environmental destruction. Man, being the smartest of all creatures, has turned almost every resource of the panet, into a so called more usable product, in order to fulfill his never ending needs and desires. We humans have taken over the earth, we’ve encroached on the territory of other living beings. We’ve destroyed habitats, killed other animals, overused resources, deforested areas, polluted water bodies, and the list is never ending. Talking about the prevalent environment issues, there is an endless list of problems caused due to human activities, causing an ecological imbalance, affecting every variety of biotic and abiotic components of the environment.
The intervention of man has caused a major disruption and unevenness in the whole environmental system. Everything comes with a price, and so does are extreme and reckless use of environment. Nature shows its wild face in many ways at different times. From earthquakes to forest fires to greenhouse effect to floods and the extinction of species, environment depicts it’s anger in a variety of ways. This, in turn, harms the survival of living population. The ultimate problem is caused to all the living creatures of the planet. Hence, saving it and protecting it from destruction is necessary for our own existence and growth.
On scrutiny, we realise that there are times when nature wants to tell us something, which we often tend to ignore. In this article, the focus is on how the ongoing pandemic Covid-19, though brought a lot of problems worldwide, but actually proved to be beneficial in a lot of other ways, which no one would have thought about.
Coronavirus that has been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization has disrupted all human activities globally. It continues to sweep across the world, bringing pretty much everything to a halt in many countries, as residents are quarantined or decide to self-isolate to stop spreading of virus, and most large-scale events and programs have been postponed or cancelled altogether. Institutions and entertainment centres have stopped, factories have shut down, travel through air is at an all time low, work from home has been implemented at most , lesser vechicles are seen on roads and public places and tourist spots are not overcrowded anymore. It is impacting our lives in every possible manner. Digging a little deeper into the crises, we need to ask ourselves: How all this has affected the environment? Is the universe trying to say something to us? Is there a lesson that nature is trying to teach human beings?
Well, yes! The Covid-19 pandemic has, in a way, given an indirect message to the human species, about slowing down a bit. Since, human beings began retreating themselves from public places in fear of Covid-19, nature has began reclaiming it’s space. It seems like the lockdown had an unintended benefit: Blue Skies. Nature is seen thriving in the times of quarantine. As humans retreat, nature returns!
For instance, dolphins have returned to the Italy coasts, we can now hear birds chirping early in the morning, there are swans in Italy canals, in Singapore otters are roaming freely due to empty public places. There has been a lot of improvements in the environment. These are just few examples which shows what Covid-19 had did to the environment. This has a deeper message to it, environment is precious and is greater than any economic or materialistic benefit and we ought to preserve it. Hence, we don’t own the planet; we share the world with a lot of other living beings. Our lives are as much about co-habitation as about survival of the fittest. Let the coronavirus crisis leave us with this lesson- learn to co-exist or nature will find extreme ways to reclaim it’s place.
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