24/03/2020
Lets re-frame, re-think, re-organise...
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Scientists and researchers around the world are working hard looking for a drug to fight corona disease. Covid-19 knows no social, ethnic & racial boundaries, or territorial boundaries. We’re facing an almost inescapable global pandemic.
It is said that we are the most comfortable generation to have lived on earth. Humans are the most evolved species equipped with highly advanced science and technology, but yet we’re facing a crisis driven by panic and selfish choices. The global unreadiness to a crisis of this sort has also led supply chains to shrink worldwide, and financial markets to plunge. A microbe has made us learn how interdependent and vulnerable we are. That there is more to the world than economies competing against each other.
However, did you know Covid-19 just like SARS , influenza H1N1, avian Influenza is a zoonotic disease which is transmitted between vertebrate animals and humans?
Humans have cut down trees, overused oceanic resources, and have invaded tropical forests and other wild life over the past decades.
We continue to disturb the equation of biodiversity every day.
Many of the root causes of climate change also increases the risk of pandemics.
For example, deforestation for cattle farming forces wild animals to migrate and contact other people and animals. In doing so, we destroy the natural habitat of unknown viruses and bacteria, risking the cross over into the human species.
Large livestock farms also serve as a massive source of infections from animals being grain fed with high doses of antibiotics. Yet, we continue to rely on massive scale meat production and unsustainable ways of animal husbandry which is detrimental to our health.
So it is time we re-evaluate laws and policies on conservation of biodiversity & most critically, our way of living.
The origins of COVID and many other natural disasters reveal that an imbalanced ecosystem threatens our very own existence. We’re not the owner of the web of life but merely a thread of it and when we disrupt nature, we disrupt the flow of life of all beings. We all live on earth on borrowed time and none of us are superior to the nature. This perhaps is the universe telling us that we all have to reassess and reform our discourse on earth for the benefit of generations to come.
This, therefore is the right moment to revisit our conscience and question whether we want a better world, or whether we choose to manipulate nature's discourse for our own selfish interests?
Whether we continue to ignore the nature's values with a false notion of superiority over everything else?
Think. Think again and again.
What have we gained from this world?
How much have we all given back to this world?
To make the world a better place, a safer place, and a meaningful existence.
So, take a moment..To rethink our choices ... for a future that never see a tragedy of this sort..
Can we as a global human community, during this shared world-wide time of quiet, find a way to create a 'humane world’?
Can we hold this moment even after this crisis is gone?
Can we use this time of pause, to re-boot our own internal operating system?
To transform from within and emerge more enlightened, more connected and more purposeful?
