It looks like after all the abuse our species has heaped on our home planet, the Earth Goddess — Mother Nature, Gaia, whatever you want to call her — is striking back.
We wouldn’t take seriously the existential threat to our species and all other life on earth, so the Earth Goddess had to strike back with a more immediate plague to demand our attention.
And it looks like she’s getting some results:
With increased hand washing, social distancing and ending the archaic custom of hand shaking, illness and deaths from a lot of other diseases will also be greatly reduced.
Because everything is slowing down, the heavily polluted waters of the Venice Canals are now clear, and fish and even dolphins are swimming in them now that the gondolas are no longer floating in them.
Large mega-cities in China like Beijing and Shanghai were famous for their thick layers of smog that were visible from space, but with factories and smoke-belching vehicles silenced, the air has suddenly become clear.
Old people who are more susceptible to complications from COVID-19 are suddenly begging young people to remember us, and the young can say to most of them, “Yeah, like you remembered us when you were destroying the environment we are going to have to live in after you’re gone?” (But do remember that some of us were remembering, calling for change, and plugging electric cars into solar panels.)
And Earth Goddess is going to show us that the Green New Deal, which our leaders said couldn’t be done when we had to scale back to protect the future generations, is suddenly possible. Now that OUR generation is faced with a deadly virus, suddenly it turns out that scaling back is possible, after all.
As the old ad used to say: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature” — she sees right through you.
It looks like after all the abuse our species has heaped on our home planet, the Earth Goddess — Mother Nature, Gaia, whatever you want to call her — is striking back.
We wouldn’t take seriously the existential threat to our species and all other life on earth, so the Earth Goddess had to strike back with a more immediate plague to demand our attention.
And it looks like she’s getting some results:
With increased hand washing, social distancing and ending the archaic custom of hand shaking, illness and deaths from a lot of other diseases will also be greatly reduced.
Because everything is slowing down, the heavily polluted waters of the Venice Canals are now clear, and fish and even dolphins are swimming in them now that the gondolas are no longer floating in them.
Large mega-cities in China like Beijing and Shanghai were famous for their thick layers of smog that were visible from space, but with factories and smoke-belching vehicles silenced, the air has suddenly become clear.
Old people who are more susceptible to complications from COVID-19 are suddenly begging young people to remember us, and the young can say to most of them, “Yeah, like you remembered us when you were destroying the environment we are going to have to live in after you’re gone?” (But do remember that some of us were remembering, calling for change, and plugging electric cars into solar panels.)
And Earth Goddess is going to show us that the Green New Deal, which our leaders said couldn’t be done when we had to scale back to protect the future generations, is suddenly possible. Now that OUR generation is faced with a deadly virus, suddenly it turns out that scaling back is possible, after all.
As the old ad used to say: “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature” — she sees right through you.