Many parts of the world, including most of Europe, India, parts of the US are under lock down. This has had its impact on the environment. Numerous reports have pointed towards how air quality in Delhi and Los Angeles has improved drastically, marine life seems to have returned to the lagoons of Venice and the Ganges in India. Economic activity across countries has reduced to essential services. Demand of oil, the leading source of GHG emissions is at an all time low. Yet, the estimated reduction in CO2 emission is between 5% — 8%.
Let that sink in — The world it at a standstill, yet it will emit 92% — 95% of the emissions that it does in a typical year. …
The Neolithic age started between 12,000 and 7,000 years ago and marked humanity’s transition from hunter gatherers to farmers. This was the first time we started growing our food instead of gathering whatever we could find. The Neolithic economy started the process of humans domesticating plants and animals to make them optimal for human consumption and use. As this process continued, we learnt how to use water and other rudimentary fertilizers to produce more food on the same patch of land. …
Some 200,000 years ago, homo sapiens appeared on Earth. For many millennia, humanity fended for itself as a group of hunter-gatherers. Homo sapiens were, for the majority of our history, a submissive species, being hunted by other dominant species on this planet. Our move to becoming a dominant species on this planet took a long time and a series of inventions, from fire to stone tools, and finally to iron tools. It allowed us to kickstart the Neolithic age somewhere between 12,000 and 7,000 years ago, when we learnt to manipulate our immediate environment to grow our own food and learned to tame animals. Since then, humanity has evolved and become the most dominant species on this planet. …
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