Thursday, April 30, 2020

Healthy Nature- Part 2


Man acts today to plan for tomorrow!

But God has different planning, always differing ours, but BEST in the interest of man's future!

It's said that we, human beings, are His most lovable children. Therefore He gave us an excellent machine called the brain.

We have developed ourselves over the ages, with various inventions. There are numerous unmatched creations, man has done.

There are numerous fields where man has excelled, has done "artificial wonders" be it field of Engineering, Medical, etc. But God's wonder has remained always unmatched.

Man, in the process of "Making", "Processed" waste, in the form of solid, liquid, and gas. 
Each year we produce 2.12 billion tonnes of waste!

We made wonderful buildings but cut off bridges with nature. We made cemented cities but blocked nostrils of earth. We burnt mass jungles to get land to be used / misused for the above infrastructure. (Amazon & Australia).

The World got heated up, in true sense! Caution was tendered upon when Icebergs in the North Pole started melting. This was a warning bell. But we did not pay the required attention and did too little to recover as compared to the damage we were doing.

From the bottom of the oceans to the peaks of mountains, from river headwaters to the point of merging into the sea, from jungles to the sky, we went on polluting, dirtying, destroying the nature.

We also killed numerous flora-fauna to cater our greedily created needs.

BOOMERANG!

AIR IS GETTING PURER BUT MAN IS WEARING MASK!
It is always quoted by old people, God acts when we fail or flop, He corrects us when we don't stop making errors. 
And He does it via nature. He is compelled to do His role, as we forget our duties, our role and we disown our duty or discipline, required to live our life in harmony. In other words, we ignore, LIVE AND LET LIVE. 

We forget that even other lives too have the right to live. 

The world was breathless and the pollution in every form, gripped it. Despite being gifted with a most precious piece called brain, in its complex format, the man continued ignoring the warning signals by nature.

In comes the Boomerang!

An outbreak of the deadly virus, whether intentionally or unintentionally, the COVID-19 (Corona Virus Disease-2019), popularly known as Corona, has started gripping more than two-third of the world, at the time, these words were being penned.

Human error has resulted into this pandemic. The purpose is subject of debate, but combating it has become a war footing action, crippling life and economy of all the infected countries.

As the pandemic is quite mysterious in its nature and its weird ability to mutate in different patterns; it is stated to have 9 other patterns with different formulation!

What it means in simple language is, it will take a long long time to come out of this pandemic. 

It's like an acid test for us, forcing us to change our lifestyle, our food, our habits, and much more.

Meanwhile, as man is constrained to home, almost detained by nature police for his crime of pollution.
Nature is self-healing itself, at an amazing speed.

Initially, the impact of lockdown which is a self-imposed ban by man to himself, has brought a full stop to man's activities of self-development, which had the side-effect of pollution.

The first glimpse of the astonishing change in world climate was noticed through satellite.

We started experiencing the difference, as we could see with our nacked eyes, what otherwise was not possible post-Corona period.

Later we started breathing fresh air, we sensed pure water and we have sensed the ground also changing.

On one hand, the man started perishing and on the other hand, the global Climate started recovering from the intense disease of pollution. As the cities and industrial centers stopped emitting polluted air, nature got time to heal self. With more than hundreds of countries under lockdown, the looming brown belt of pollution over them, started shrinking magically !

The level of carbon dioxide and nitrogen dioxide got reduced by more than 40% due to a fall in fossil fuel emissions by man the main source of pollution, nose-dived.

The parameter of comparing the atmosphere is the year-ago satellite picture of a particular region. All comparisons show a drastic noticeable difference in the atmosphere. 

The vibration from cultural noise has reduced to a great extent, the seismologists claim.      

Automobiles on the road and planes in the air are grounded for months, the main source of CO2 emission, which has drastically fallen.

The fuel consumption, emitting Co2 has stopped. This has resulted in never-in-the-history nose-dive in crude oil prices per barrel from US$ 63.05 as of 30th December 2019 to US$ 15.06 as of 27th April 2020, a decrease of about 76% !

And what is the reason? Corona! No man could do this. All countries can't be self-sufficient to create such a scene.

Is it the beginning of the end of crude oil ever increasing prices? The largest contributor to pollution is carbon emissions. A downward trend of emissions started with man getting quarantined himself.
  
It’s a new phenomenon, DONE BY NATURE!


Nature has resolved multiple problems vide pandemics.







     


The Chairman of GLOBAL CARBON PROJECT, which integrates knowledge of greenhouse gases for human activities and the Earth system, Rob Jackson quoted: This drop-in emissions are global and unprecedented. In several areas of the world, air pollution has dropped significantly. This gives an idea of how positively we can purify the air with renewables.” 

Although he doesn’t deny human loss which is significantly and continuous as there is no vaccine and this welcome change in atmosphere is short-lived.

Tens of millions of people have lost their jobs, so I can't celebrate this drop. What we need is a systematic change in energy infrastructure, otherwise post lockdown the emission will again engulf this beautiful nature on the earth.

However, the wildlife has sensed the vacuum created by retreating man. That will certainly reduce the overrun of animals by vehicles. 

Coyotes, an animal shy of the crowd, was 
spotted right at Golden Gate Bridge, San 
Francisco.

Deers roam short of few miles of White House! Wild boars on the streets of Barcelona! Peacock in Bangor, Wales. 
All animals and birds visiting the land left by man, to see an unnatural world!

But the conservationists feel that this downtrend of the economy will affect nature reserves making it difficult to pay even rangers. And this might increase illegal poaching, mining, and logging since men are falling short of their regular income.  

So we can not say that the reversal of the economy will be beneficial to nature.

Leading scientists have jointly signed an open appeal to various heads of Government, to use recovery package to move to greener direction and it will be foolish to go back to the polluted world.

But the most important impact is on the interpretation of the public. The pandemic has shown what happens if we ignore expert’s warning of political delay, sacrificing human health and natural landscape for the betterment of the economy.          

Most of the latest infectious diseases come from animals-70%. These new diseases pass rapidly from animal to man (zoonosis) through wildlife trafficking, deforestation, and spread across the globe through air travel, cruise tourism, etc.
This has resulted in the demand for a ban on the “wet market” like the world’s biggest Wuhan Wet Market and others, particularly in South-east countries.

The pandemic has made the unthinkable, thinkable.

The political focus has shifted from individual prosperity to collective wellbeing. 

It all depends on the human being whether the pandemic is good or bad for nature, not on the virus.

The ball is in man’s court now!

God is recovering nature! We have to practice discipline, for our peaceful life, because progress without peace is life without discipline.