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We just celebrated #EarthDay 
I want you to reflect on our-humanity's relationship with #Earth as we & our imagined great civilisation has have been felled by a tiny #microbe
How do #virus & #pathogens infect #humans Such #zoonotic #pandemics r not new but have increased 1/n
I want you to reflect on our-humanity's relationship with #Earth as we & our imagined great civilisation has have been felled by a tiny #microbe How do #virus & #pathogens infect #humans Such #zoonotic #pandemics r not new but have increased 1/n
Manifold. In the past century an estimated 65% of all #diseases come from #wildlife How? #Zoonotic diseases like the v fatal #Ebola & now #COVID-19 r mainly an effect of destruction of natural ecosystems & #wildlife trade that pushes people & #wildlife into unnaturally close 2/n
proximity facilitating easy transmission #spillover from animal to human As @DavidQuammen bluntly puts it in a @nytimes article 'We made the #CoronavirusPandemic '
Yet, even as the writing is on the wall, we continue to exploit #earth destroy habitat .Thru this thread 3/n
Yet, even as the writing is on the wall, we continue to exploit #earth destroy habitat .Thru this thread 3/n
I will list some India's @moefcc state & other decisions that spell not just ecological catastrophe but will have grave implications for public health , #water security #agriculture #economy #democracy taken just in the past month or two 4/n
On 7 Apr @PrakashJavdekar tweeted that he virtually held a meeting of the #NBWL & virtually cleared all projects presented in & around #India's #ProtectedAreas including a #highway project through Goa's pristine bio-diverse #forests , a broad gauge #railway line cutting 5/n
thru tiger corridors connecting 3 #tigers reserves & Hydel project that will drown 900 ha #forest & the endemic Myristica Swamps #Karnataka . Also, @moefcc put out a draft #Environment impact assessment notification that dilutes public hearing & #environmental regulations 6/n
when #India is in #lockdown & in a crisis . The court okayed a 2nd airport in #goa which is an #ecological disaster, destroy >40 perennial streams amid local opposition & safety concerns. the #centralvista in #Delhi also got a go ahead. Cost: ₹ 20000 cr when v need to put 7/n
all efforts resources in tackling the #CoronavirusOutbreak & the immense suffering of our people. Right now the @moefcc FAC is considering Etalin Hydropower Project - that ill submerge >3 lakh #trees prime #forests that has #tigers rare #wildlife 8/n https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/2-7-lakh-trees-to-be-felled-for-hydropower-project-in-arunachal-s-dibang-valley/story-i0GVuHt8nHF4JbxeM4birM.html
The #Karnataka CM @BSYBJP bulldozed Hubballi-Ankola railway line slice thru #WesternGhats a #biodiversity hotspot felling > 2.2 lakh #trees spread over 600 hectares of prime forest, including part of the Kali #TigerReserve 9/n https://greenminute.in/2020/03/19/yeddyurappa-push-pulls-hubballi-ankola-rail-project-despite-rejections-at-every-stage/
#Kerala being lauded-correctly-for its handling #CoronaOutbreak allowed for landowners to chop down previously protected trees-could lead to culling of > 5 million #trees . Suicidal in a state which has seen horrific destruction in successive floods 10/n
https://meeresh.blogspot.com/2020/03/keralas-invitation-to-disaster-and.html?m=1
https://meeresh.blogspot.com/2020/03/keralas-invitation-to-disaster-and.html?m=1
List is indicative,not exhaustive.I write abt some of these connections-of #deforestations #extinction & #CoronaVirus in @RGSustain1 11/n
"There are no lessons learnt. It is business as usual, even in these times, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. https://round.glass/sustain/conservation/writing-wall-heed-message-pandemic/
"There are no lessons learnt. It is business as usual, even in these times, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. https://round.glass/sustain/conservation/writing-wall-heed-message-pandemic/
I could continue but i am heartsick -that we blindly continue to destruct knowing the consequences , at loss of such incredible heritage beauty #wildlife. We will do well to remember 'We belong to the #earth, the #earth does not belong to us' . 12/n
#earthdayeveryday
#earthdayeveryday
What upsets me is the apathy. #EarthMatters When we war with #wildlife we are at war with ourselves.
We are part of #nature not some supreme being. We need to be humble, for we are animals. That is what this tiny #Coronavirus that has brought us to our knees has taught us 13/13
We are part of #nature not some supreme being. We need to be humble, for we are animals. That is what this tiny #Coronavirus that has brought us to our knees has taught us 13/13
