{"id":1125,"date":"2020-05-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futurelink.onlinesummit.biz\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2020-07-16T17:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T16:24:20","slug":"nature-is-calling-are-you-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/2020\/05\/13\/nature-is-calling-are-you-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature is calling \u2013 are you listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div>\n<p>The ongoing climate crisis and the Covid 19 pandemic are nature\u2019s warnings to humanity that we cannot continue to treat the natural world as nothing more than resources to exploit and the land and ocean as dumping grounds.&nbsp; Human beings are literally devouring Mother Earth and pushing ecosystems and the delicate and exquisite balance on which all life on Earth depends to the brink of collapse.&nbsp; Our actions are putting at risk our health and the health of our planet.&nbsp; Scientists have been warning us for decades about the stresses we are placing on the natural world and the dangers those pose to all life on Earth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So called wet markets, which is where live animals are traded for human consumption, have been implicated in previous outbreaks of coranoviruses, in particular, Sars, and now, the Covid 19 pandemic.&nbsp; Wet markets include endangered species such as pangolins, which are part of a massive worldwide illegal wildlife trade. &nbsp;Experts are warning that pandemics will only worsen if we continue to exploit animals.&nbsp; Both the UN and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) have linked animals from wet markets and factory farming, also known as industrial farming, with causing new infectious diseases in humans in the past decade.&nbsp; As at May 10 2020, Covid 19 has killed more than 270,000 people worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any positive environmental impact we are currently experiencing, including improved air quality and reduced greenhouse gas emissions will be only temporary unless we address our consumption and production habits.&nbsp; These must be changed towards being sustainable, clean and green. Only long-term systemic shifts will impact the rising trend of carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, which, if that trajectory continues \u2013 will push us towards an unlivable planet.&nbsp; Climate change is causing the ocean to heat, disrupting marine life and the jet stream.&nbsp; Scientists have linked fluctuating jet streams caused by climate change with an increase in severe weather events, including drought, heat waves, hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons.&nbsp; Were the ocean to die \u2013 we would all die.&nbsp; Every second breath is from the ocean:&nbsp; In addition to providing more than half of the world\u2019s oxygen, it drives and modulates the Earth\u2019s weather systems and atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN\u2019s environment chief, Inger Andersen, has called for a profound, systemic shift to address the crisis we have caused.&nbsp; The benefits in air quality and reduced emissions that have come about in response to the Covid 19 pandemic are temporary \u2013 and have come about with enormous human suffering and economic collapse.&nbsp; Overnight, our lives have changed.&nbsp; Thousands have died.&nbsp; Millions are without work.&nbsp; Vulnerable communities without access to clean water and health care are most at risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need a more sustainable economy that works for both people and the planet.&nbsp; Any lasting positive environmental impact must result from changing our production and consumption habits towards being cleaner and greener:&nbsp; Only long-term systemic shifts will change the trajectory of CO2 levels in the atmosphere. We must seize the opportunity presented in managing the Covid 19 pandemic crisis to build a better future. &nbsp;The Covid 19 crisis has seen a number of innovative digital platforms emerge to keep us connected \u2013 both in our personal and work lives.&nbsp; Let\u2019s build on that to move forward working together as a global community to make a green revolution a reality, where there is minimal waste and where we have a circular economy.&nbsp; We are now ideally placed to take ownership of our future, to live according to our needs, and within planetary boundaries.&nbsp; We have an opportunity in creating this green revolution to address inequities, where we are all empowered and have the opportunity to flourish.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Taking care of the planet equates to taking care of ourselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ongoing climate crisis and the Covid 19 pandemic are nature\u2019s warnings to humanity that we cannot continue to treat the natural world as nothing more than resources to exploit and the land and ocean as dumping grounds.&nbsp; Human beings are literally devouring Mother Earth and pushing ecosystems and the delicate and exquisite balance on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[14,15,16],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freedom","category-breaking","tag-nature","tag-take-care","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1589,"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futurelink.earth\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}