Could Screwworms Teach Us How To Solve Both The COVID Crisis And Global Warming?
COVID-19, aka the coronavirus, and the climate crisis are two of the most critical issues the human race currently face. What is the connection between these two? Could one solve the other or just make it worse? And how can we use screwworms as a case study to illustrate a possible solution. It all sounds like I am about to lay a conspiracy theory but it is all backed up by hard scientific evidence and I hope you will agree.
At the end of 2019, the entire world was talking about the climate crisis — pictures of Greta Thunberg and her Global Climate Strike were all over the media. Then the Coronavirus emerged and the world had other urgent issues to attend to, or so it seems, the conversation about the climate crisis was silenced and COVID-19 was the trending topic. But the truth is that the crisis did not go away and there is more and more evidence that points to the deep relationship between the climate crisis and pandemic.
Proximity and Contact
Let us go back to December 2013, when the world experienced the start of the second Ebola outbreak killing over 11,000 people. The investigation revealed that this outbreak probably started with an 18 month-old child from a small village in Guinea who played near a hollow tree that was the home of a…
