World Post the Covid Pandemic-Nature’s Reclamation
Anticipate a change in trends and lifestyles, inclined more towards nature, in the world after Covid-19
While the ongoing global crisis engulfs humans, nature seems to be healing itself, rare animals being spotted, cleaner air and marine water, marine life reviving, Ozone layer fixing, and animals freely strolling the empty streets. It seems highly likely that the post-pandemic world will also shift towards nature and that the world will never be the same again.
The fact that back up this prediction is, for one, that we have turned to nature for refuge from the deadly disease, in terms of food particularly. People worldwide have become conscious of the uncertainty of the food origin and potential threat that comes with pre-packaged food. The importance of consumption of only natural and organic food is stressed to ward off the disease. With the prospect of healing, or the very least, strengthening the immune system, the consumption of certain herbs and plant based-vegan diet is the current mantra.
According to consumer research held in the UK last year, about 51% of the participants held the view that botanical ingredients possess healing benefits, and 12 % of the consumers in the UK have shifted to a vegan diet during the pandemic, a quarter of which are 21 to 30 yo millennials. There’s a high chance that even after the crisis ends, a vegan diet and home-cooked food will be the new normal widely, a status held by packaged and junk food in the pre-Covid world, which started as precautions and safety measures will become a trend and lifestyle.
The virus has been proved to have a zoonotic source, originated from an animal, which one exactly, that’s unclear. Some researchers suggest bats, while some theories point towards pangolins, which are endangered and banned in China, but to no avail, illegal wildlife trafficking is to be blamed. The fact that messing with wildlife can have deadly consequences, we have learned it the hard way, and at the incredibly high costs, the question is whether we are willing to be practical about that in the future or not. Experts worldwide are warning us to change our ways towards nature, or we are finished.
The cause of the outbreak is highly considered to be the misuse, mishandling of nature. To avoid any such future pandemics, harmonizing with nature, protecting it will be considered crucial. The idea might seem at first difficult to grasp, but not when we look at the bigger picture. The substantial reduction in CO2 emission due to the restrictions imposed during the crisis has reduced global warming, even if it's most probably temporary.
However, what it does offer in the long run, is the idea that global warming can be controlled through certain environmental actions, those that we are forced to take right now and have witnessed the unintended consequences. Hence, even after the stakes are lifted off the lives, the issue of Climate change will be tackled more attentively, for, along with other threats, global warming can also cause migrations of animals from their natural habitats towards human habitats, possibly carrying zoonotic diseases like the one we are currently dealing with.
The post-Covid world will be inclined more towards nature. More enhanced and organized measures will be made for its preservation and protection. That, needless to say, at this point and is not at all an overstatement, is extremely critical to prevent another future outbreak or any other nature crisis for that matter.
