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The mysterious whispers of
secrecy are rippling through the world about the convergence of whether
SARS-CoV2 is a naturally occurring narrative or the rise of artificial
science-humiliation. The answer is primarily volanting amidst the unrestricted
art of incessantly involute horizon of infinite possibilities but the rhythm
underlying any of this flamboyant presentment is devoid of precise evidence. Without
perambulation into the unnecessary mud of that debate, it is an unfaltering
pretension that the epidemic is man-made. An article by Nicholas Wade1,
published a few days ago, strikes a chord at the heart of this idea. We can
take these two hypotheses separately and can push the process of logical
analysis towards the truth. Firstly, if we consider the artificial invention of
the virus to be true, then we must not be oblivious about the infallible phrase
of Francis Bacon that ‘truth is the
daughter of time, not of authority’. And that's what evokes a thrilling
memory of espionage from the days of World War II. We must not forget Lona
Cohen, who handed over the blueprint of the atomic bomb to Soviet Russia and exposed
the horrific game of destruction in front of world. And in the case of Covid
too, we can expect the same dreaded standard of time to reemerge and the divulgence
of this most ignominious atrocities in the history of human civilization.
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But if there is a manifestation
of the ogrish gruesomeness of nature behind Covid lues, then we have to blame
the unbridled aggression of capital towards natural resources, as well as even
human lives. David Quammen, the author of ‘Spillover: Animal Infections and the
Next Human Pandemic’, wrote that,
‘We
invade tropical forests and other wild landscapes, which harbor so many species
of animals and plants — and within those creatures, so many unknown viruses. We
cut the trees; we kill the animals or cage them and send them to markets. We
disrupt ecosystems, and we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts. When
that happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it’2.
Also an
article3 in ‘Nature’ by Kate Jones and team indicated that almost
335 diseases that emerged between 1960 and 2004(the period of unlimited growth
of manufacturing industry), at least 60% of which came are zoonotic. In this
context, Thomas Gillespie, an associate professor in Emory University, told
that,
‘I am not at all surprised about
the coronavirus outbreak. The majority of pathogens are still to be discovered.
We are at the very tip of the iceberg.4’
In addition to these, an article
‘Big Agriculture Is Leading to Ecological Collapse’ from ‘Foreign Policy’ also elucidated
the current scenario of CO2 and other consequences of the
destructive appetite of capital. On the other hand, the aspect that almost far
from even imagination is the melting of permafrost due to climate change and
global warming. Scientists told that,
‘The
increase in the active layer started in the 1990s and the long-term thawing of
the permafrost only started very recently, the last 10 years or so. It’s just
the beginning. But it will accelerate with time, and we should expect the
degradation of permafrost to pick up over the next few decades.’5
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And
what is the end-result of this warning? It will confirm the palingenesis of the
primitive viruses which can infect the human body through water or other
essentials of life and replicating itself will ensure another epidemic. Yet
those, who are skeptical about it, are suggested to go through the article ‘The
permafrost pandemic: could the melting Arctic release a deadly disease?’ and
revisit the signal that told us about ‘the
two that we know could come out of the permafrost are anthrax and that’s pox
viruses, other than that it’s Pandora’s box.’ And it would be ridiculous to
be reminded of the current for-profit health care system that has accustomed
people to antibiotics. An article6 by Darcy Jimenez told us that
antibiotic-resistant superbugs are killing more than 35,000 people in the US
every year. And this antibiotic resistance pandemic can kill annually more than
the coronavirus pandemic, if not stopped immediately. Can't we call this a
man-made epidemic after all these action?
Notwithstanding we haven't seen
the slightest effort to stop it until last year. A project called ‘Predict’,
which boldly identified about 160 epidemic-capable ‘corona’ viruses since 2009,
was stopped by the Trump administration in an instant. About ‘Predict’, Peter
Daszak, president of Eco-Health Alliance said that,
‘It was a genius, visionary program that USAID took a big risk to fund
and it’s a crying shame it was canceled’7.
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He added that,
‘I’m not confident we will learn the lessons
from this, though. We saw the same thing happen after Ebola and then Zika. We
are always behind with pandemics, we are flying blind. We have hit the snooze
button several times and now here’s the big one’.
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Along with this the world
has witnessed the insouciance tweets by D. Trump in the context of coming out
from the Paris Agreement, that,
‘The
Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all
over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world
countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the
environment. Chanting “We Want Trump!” Love France’8.
India,
also, is not far behind in this regard. They are too, addicted to the game of
destroying the environment by exerting the influence of political corruption.
An article by renowned daily revealed that,
‘A 20-year-old rail line project in the Western Ghats in Karnataka, which was
rejected by several statutory bodies in the past and remained shelved amid
fears the extent of irreparable damage it could cause to primary forests and
unique biodiversity, has got the State Board for Wildlife (SBWL) authorities’
nod March 20, reversing its rejection move 11 days earlier.’9
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But why can't the reinless pace
of environmental destruction be stopped? However, in recent times the
governments of many countries, especially the US, have made various promises
and targets to prevent this but it is better not to expect too much from it. Because
only a transformation of capital and surplus profit is working here. Many have
identified it as Green Capitalism, but we can come to the conclusion without
going into it. A recent study by Euler Hermes10 showed that how the
world economic center of gravity is moving faster towards Asia (China is a
leader in this regard), and it has chosen artificial intelligence as its next
weapon. So to maintain the western control on the world economy the butterflies
of the service industry is now flying around out of the shell of the
manufacturing industry. According to this in the coming days just as the need
to occupy land-forest is gone, so is the need for labor. And that is why different
new research based on AI in the field of geoengineering11 and
artificial meat12 is coming to the news. Everyone is saying that the
days of fossil fuels or the destruction of forests and wildlife are over. News
are about,
‘more than 1,500 companies
have committed to net-zero emissions by mid-century, as have 11,000 cities and
at least $9 trillion in private assets under management’13.
But
in return for what? Kate Cell, Climate Campaign Manager of Union Of Concerned
Scientists, said in an article14 , that, by installing large solar panels
in the place of more than 60 acres of dense forest. Numerous examples can be
given where the face-message of protecting the environment is being uttered by the
masked-motive of destroying the environment. Actually it is impossible to
prevent an impending epidemic due to environmental degradation without
abandoning this immense greed for profit. And new Antony told that profit is an
honorable thing.
In March, 2019 an article ‘Past
As Prologue’ by Anthony Annett and Joshua Lipsky, published in ‘Finace and
Development’, has reminded us about the fall of Roman Empire due to climate
crisis and endless epidemics. The illation is that
‘The bottom line is that sustainable development is of enduring
importance—whether we are talking about 130 BCE, 530, or 2030’.
Whether
coincidental or not is unknown, but, a very recent report informed us that the
‘Taskforce on Scaling the Voluntary Carbon
Market suggested a market of 1-5 Gigatons of CO2 by 2030, with
perhaps two-thirds directed at Nature Based Solutions (NBS), meaning that tens
of billions of dollars of investment in NBS are potentially at stake’13.
Finally, whether the debate on virus
is natural or artificial be, there is certain assurance of uncontrolled human
consciousness behind its appearance. So it is undeniable that the epidemic is
man-made. And the accompanying epidemics of future are of no difference.
References:
- https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/
- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/28/opinion/coronavirus-china.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature06536
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/destroyed-habitat-creates-the-perfect-conditions-for-coronavirus-to-emerge/
- https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/07/03/arctic-permafrost-pandemic-life-uh-finds-a-way/
- https://www.pharmaceutical-technology.com/features/covid-19-antibiotic-resistance/
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/03/trump-scrapped-pandemic-early-warning-program-system-before-coronavirus
- https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1071382401954267136?lang=en
- https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/ecologists-ask-javadekar-to-stop-rail-line-across-western-ghats/story-qmOGyFkPofmE4ZMe0l1QpN.html
- https://www.eulerhermes.com/en_global/news-insights/economic-insights/the-world-is-moving-east-fast.html
- https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01243-0
- https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/the-artificial-meat-factory-the-science-of-your-synthetic-supper/
- https://www.wri.org/insights/corporate-financing-nature-based-solutions-what-next
- https://blog.ucsusa.org/kate-cell/when-slowing-global-warming-means-cutting-down-trees-hard-choices-in-the-climate-crisis