How Covid-19 would affect the way we consume? And how it will affect the way we interact with the habitat? Would the new normal make us more emphatic? The Covid-19 is the biggest challenge we are currently facing worldwide. Is affecting us, as a society, as much as us, as individuals. There are so many questions in the air… Today, I want to share my thoughts about how the coronavirus has changed us.
Personally, I was impressed by how quickly nature recovered. As soon as we were locked for a couple of weeks, the quality of the air improved massively, the rivers and canals were crystal clear and animals took over our streets. I think that seeing fish in the famous Venice’s canal made all of us smile, but even after all these impressive images the message wasn’t internalised. We should decrease the pressure we are putting over nature!! I don’t pretend to be negative but, the truth is that it hasn’t taken us very long, before we cover our oceans with Covid-19 garbage, such as face masks and plastic gloves. It has been published that, if we keep disposing these items at the current speed, this summer there would be more face masks in the Mediterranean ocean than jellyfish! With all the collateral damage associated with it, such as visual pollution, microplastics entering our food chain and sea animals being suffocated.
This time locked at home has shown us what are the important things in life. Why not take a minute to decide what are the important things beyond us? It looks like nowadays, believing in leaving a better place for the next generation is a revolutionary thought. But our daily actions can have wonderful consequences for the future generations.
Let’s be generous, let’s be clean, let’s believe in a better future!
