CORONAVIRUS is having a huge impact on human society. Social distancing is occupying people’s thoughts, with all the ramifications it brings. How safe are our older relatives? What is happening with the exams? How will the economy cope? So, is our increasing population making it more likely to get pandemics in the future?

Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/27/halt-destruction-nature-worse-pandemics-top-scientists?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_In_die_Zwischenablage_kopieren

But there is a silver lining. Governments are taking different precautionary measures. Maybe we will learn from this crisis, some ways of dealing with Global Heating. Here are some articles where one can read further.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/coronavirus-holds-key-lessons-on-how-to-fight-climate-change

http://Covid-19 is nature’s wake-up call to complacent civilisation https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/25/covid-19-is-natures-wake-up-call-to-complacent-civilisation?

http://’Tip of the iceberg’: is our destruction of nature responsible for Covid-19? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/18/tip-of-the-iceberg-is-our-destruction-of-nature-responsible-for-covid-19-aoe?