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The New “Black Death”
Covid19’s Role in Reshaping Earth
Earth presently has about 7.8 billion people living on it. It took us 200,000 years to reach one billion, and only another 200 years to reach seven billion. How that latter figure manifests itself can be seen in satellite photographs of the Amazon Forest; the increasing desertification of sub-Saharan Africa; the permanent air pollution over India and large parts of China; the plastic garbage patch twice the size of Texas, floating in the Pacific Ocean; and in the charts showing the accelerating rise in greenhouse gases throughout our world. What can be done to stop this rape of Mother Earth?
Will it be done through the “Green New Deal?” The Paris Accords? Each one of us shopping with reusable bags? Turning to alternative energy sources?
We’ve known about the Global Climate Crisis for more than 30 years. Have we done anything significant to abate or reverse it? No.
Our collective motto, as humans, is “too much foreskin, not enough forethought.”
The net result is that our entire way of life, in some way or another, is now under attack. We are at the margins of what can be called the “New Black Death,” where hundreds of millions of people will die in the next year or so. Imagine: 10% of our population dies. That’s about 800 million people. But that would only be about 59%…
