speech on topic should lockdown once more to let the nature heal itself
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During the lockdown to contain the Covid-19 outbreak, among the most popular categories of curiosities is “Nature healing itself”. Every day brings viral stories and images — some real, several fake — of Nature reverting to her pristine glory in the absence of human meddling for over two months. We are told the air is so clean that snowclad Himalayan peaks are visible from distant plains; the lockdown has managed to do to the Ganga what gargantuan government schemes to clean it up couldn’t; the Yamuna’s waters have turned turquoise; the Cauvery, usually bone-dry by this time of the year, flows unfettered and clean; nilgais graze the landscaped lawns leading up to Delhi’s airport; tigers roam coffee estates of Kodagu where none were thought to exist; and at the rate at which Nature is healing itself, we might perhaps wake up to twice the tiger population by the time the lockdown is lifted.
Such stories have become wildly popular and not just because they offer a fleeting moment of cheer. Our saudade-filled view of the ecological past has miraculously turned into reality.
Who needs a time machine when we’ve got Covid-19?
The stories celebrate an act of Nature temporarily defeating the faceless and distant villains: the wretched industries that pour poison into our rivers, greedy farmers who pump the earth with fertilisers and pesticides, and governments that do nothing about it. There’s a desire to somehow hang on to the ecological gains when the economic engine begins to rev up once again.
To conveniently forget the fact that we are the traffic in the jam is, perhaps, a form of saudade. As desiring machines, it is we who seek cheaper goods in ever greater quantities that cannot be produced without turning rivers into sewers or cities into gas chambers.
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