Precious Wants to Know – Photo: L. Weikel

Dramatic Recovery

Alas, I’m not referring to anyone or any particular country’s dramatic recovery from the current scourge of the century, the Coronavirus or Covid-19. But I am referring to Mother Earth.

Left to her own devices, free from the oppressive influence and intervention of humans, she bounces back to clarity, purity, and vibrant good health astonishingly quickly.

You’ve probably seen the articles that displayed the dramatic reduction in air pollution (so great it was noticeable from space) over the Wuhan area of China and the return to clarity of the canal waters in Venice. There have even been sightings of dolphins, swans, and a great number of fish in those waters recently.

Nature Doesn’t Need Us

It seems to me that nature is showing us quite clearly that it doesn’t need us to take care of itself at all. In fact, we’re almost certainly the anchors around its neck. Here is an article with some great links to information that gives me renewed hope for the future of our planet.

I want to have hope about our ability to quickly and effectively address climate change. In truth, I think the fundamentally most important thing any of us can do is get out of nature’s way. And to that end? I have to wonder:

Is this massive, unprecedented halt of human activity around the globe the last desperate act of Mother Earth to show us just how toxic and deadly we’ve become to her?

It sure seems to me like it to me.

The question is whether, when we come out on the other side of this devastating scourge, we will simply resume our ugly old habits, or rub the sleep out of our eyes, look around, and realize – this time, on a global level – “never again.”

(T-618)