What would Nature want post Covid19? – “Biomimetics”
By Dr.P.Sangeetha “We’re seeing a bit of Utopian glimmer coming through, and natural selection chooses what works over and over. So, when we get back to normal, we get this glorious choice to put back in our lives only what is best, only what we found made life worth living.” We’ve just been eating through [the planet] and colonizing it. And we’re spillover prone-or virus prone- right now. Life’s natural defenses –its immune system –which normally keeps everything in balance, has been threadbare. “Viruses are all around us. In a square meter, 800 million viruses a day fall from the sky. They are a hugely important part of our world and our evolution. But these pandemics happen when the natural defenses are broken. Meanwhile the climate change is just putting everything under stress. So we’ve got this natural system that is out of kilter.” Our current plight should encourage a rethink about how human systems-both economic and social-might ease the strain on our natural system....