Save the earth from covid 19 essay
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The outbreak of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) has created an unprecedented situation around the world. A joint statement by ILO, FAO, IFAD and WHO, issued on 0ctober 13, 2020, stated that the Covid-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to human existence. The statement further states that millions of enterprises face an existential threat. As breadwinners lose jobs, fall ill and die, the food security and nutrition of millions of women and men are under threat, with those in low-income countries, particularly the most marginalized populations, which include small-scale farmers and informal workers, being hardest hit.
Toby Ord, Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, writes about the existential risks that now confront human beings. ”We face possible catastrophes which threaten the permanent destruction of humanity’s potential, such as human extinction or an unrecoverable collapse of civilization.” These are known as existential catastrophes.
Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades. The Covid-19 pandemic may be considered as a reminder that there are ‘limits to growth’. With awareness of climate change, food insecurity and biodiversity decline on the radar, such a statement sounds reasonable. It is therefore considered the covid-19 as a subtle warning from a smart teacher- Mother Nature.
The authors of the iconic book – The Limits to Growth (LTG) did say this almost fifty years ago. The LTG is a 1972 report on the exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. The study was commissioned by the Club of Rome. The study concluded that if the present trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next 100 years.