What’s worst than COVID-19? The war that knows no border, age, race, ideology

The exponential growth in cases and mortality of the novel COVID-19 virus has stunned the world. With leaders across the globe employing every possible mechanism to contain the geometric spread of the virus that has now hit all 50 states in the United States of America.

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Prior to this, there was fake news about the virus being peculiar to a race. If it were so, one would wonder why what many perceived a “Wuhan problem” has become a pandemic.

But, the truth about this deadly virus is that it had no respect for borders, social class, economic status, age, knowledge-gap, gender, ideology or whatever social differences we see in literature. It does not choose its victim.

Affecting lots of human activities, global economic growth– we have never had it this worst in the 21st century.

The good news is, we have come to an understanding that the “end” goal is preserving humanity and making sacrifices for global good.

However, there is a bigger threat, bigger than COVID-19. COVID-19 might have altered human activities, but you don’t want to imagine what “destroyed earth” would be. If earth burns, it will cost us more than activities, threaten our existence and there will be no safe space because our homes won’t burn any different.

Climate change is the worst enemy. Worst still, it itself-inflicted. Forcing animal species into extinction, loss of biodiversity and has left countless organisms endangered. Maybe humans too, someday.

Our activities cause harms to organisms that are essential to our living. We need animals and plants more than they need us– they can exist and flourish independently, but we cannot.

[Read] Protecting Our Planet Starts with You.

The famous HBO movie that reflects the Chernobyl disaster could become of us if we persist. The continuing destruction of mother earth is a disorder.

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Since COVID-19, researchers in New York told the BBC their early results showed carbon monoxide mainly from cars had been reduced by nearly 50% compared with last year.

Also, CNN reports that from February 3 to March 1, CO2 emissions in China were down by at least 25% because of the measures to contain the coronavirus, according to the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), an air pollution research organization.

I don’t know what is to come, but I know times like this are a testimony of our power. Humanity must not be defined by discrimination– our enemies don’t discriminate when they come for us (death won’t), coronavirus has not.

We are more connected than philosophers taught us. The goal is to preserve lives, ours and generations to come.

All of these are indicators of things to come if we do nothing to guarantee our sustainable existence. When we are all gone, it will be said to our inheritors that we refused to act when the time was yet right and green. Our only vaccine is the action against climate change.

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Tomori Uriel is the Lead Consultant, Savofns.