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CH 7: Respecting mother nature
Because I made you pause in your relentless fuel consumption and carbon emission, the world started recovering. The air became cleaner, smog disappeared, and the skies looked bluer. As you stayed indoors, animals ventured outdoors again; for the first time in a long time, you could marvel at dolphins diving in the rivers and lakes that you had seized and animals prowling the streets that you had left empty. In the first quarter of 2020, when about half of the world was confined because of me, with more than 90 countries and territories under lockdown during the peak of the pandemic, global emissions witnessed a decrease of 17% after hitting an all-time high in 2019 at 36.8 billion tons of CO2. So, my presence in the world has been more environmentally friendly than yours.
Had you left nature alone, there is so much she could have given you in return. You keep debating climate change, but time and tide wait for none − nor does mother nature. From melting ice in the earth’s polar regions to the wild bushfires in some of the world’s largest continents, from the depletion of the world’s largest tropical rainforest to killing wild animals to satisfy your ego and greed, you seem to have embarked on a suicidal journey that mother nature can only repay with more suffering and calamity than I have caused. Don’t make the same mistake that you made with me and underestimate the sheer destructive powers of nature until it is too late to recover.
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