As death keeps no calendar but nowadays each day marks the number of departures from life. Coronavirus has changed both ways of living and way of dying, our solidarity is defined not as coming together, but keeping the distance from each other. Social distancing; everyone can do to reduce the risk of transmission. Isolation is only the way to keep yourselves and others safe and alive. According to the Department of Earth System Science at Stanford University, USA calculated that lockdowns around the world decreased Pollution so much that by far it has saved lives of 4,000 Children and 73,000 adults and by the end of this year it will save 1 million more lives.
Although the earth is taking rest, we can destroy nature but we can’t defeat it as everything has just stopped either visit of our favorite country or going our referred restaurant, just staying at home and observing how the earth is healing itself. We can realize nature doesn’t need humans to heal it but all the way human needs nature to heal them too. Even in the era of digitalization with enormous technological development, we are still at the mercy of nature. At the end of the day, every country realizes that the heath of their citizens is far more important than the production of deadly weaponry, that can’t fight these pandemics.
People fear to die these days because their greatest worry is that not everyone can attend their funeral, this pandemics has taken the world by its storm sickening and killing the thousands, shifting millions on the hospital bed, crumpling economies, looks like everything comes to an end than the hope arises, this shall too pass, but nobody knows how long it is going to last.
With decreasing the number of trains, buses, and people pounding the pavement, the normal public life has vanished, there is less air pollution because of pandemic earth-observing satellites have detected a significant decrease in the concentration of common air like nitrogen dioxide, which enters the atmosphere through emissions from cars, train, buses, and power plants. With so many people staying at home entire nations are in lockdown, the ozone layer is being recovered. According to New Scientist, a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica has continued to recover, leading to changing atmospheric circulation, according to Science Alert, stopped many dangerous changes in the Southern Hemisphere’s atmosphere The cleaner air could relief some parts of the world to battel the coronavirus, according to some media report air pollution can seriously damage human health and the World Health Organization estimates that conditions stemming from exposure to ambient pollution-including stroke, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses-kill about 4.2 million people per a year.
Fournet Said. “Nature is taking a breath when the rest of us are holding ours.”
HEMAN DAS
STUDENT OF UNIVERSITY OF KARACHI
