ENVIRONMENT
MOTHER NATURE’S
REVENGE
By Maarten Hoffmann
There are various ways to look at how our current pandemic situation occurred: n It could be that someone stored a virus is a lab and it got out. n It could be that someone in China ate an infected bat. n It could be China unleashed it on the world intentionally. Or could it be that the planet has a way of protecting itself and, tired of the havoc we humans have created, by logging, chemical use, overfishing, plastic production, sedimentary runoff, intensive farming and over population,
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Mother Nature has decided to strike back and get rid of the problem – humans. Let’s face it, we are the only species on the planet that cause such harm and we have ample evidence of the planet being able to self-regulate and protect itself.
❛❛ The Earth has a skin and
that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man ❜❜
Friedrich Nietzsche
The most shameful aspect is that we have been warned about this for decades. The environments, of course, but also from just watching what is happening to our planet. More and more children have asthma and other breathing problems, fish catches are down year-on-year to the point that a single blue fin tuna is now worth over £4million. Coral reefs have been disappearing dramatically year on year, carcinogenic plastics are found in the gut of over 90% of marine life, the extinction of animal species grows year on year and the advent of rising sea levels, floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, typhoons and landslides due to deforestation, is glaringly plain for all to see.
