Hailey's Wellness Blog: Let's Celebrate Earth Day, Respect Nature To Avoid Another Pandemic

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Let's Celebrate Earth Day, Respect Nature To Avoid Another Pandemic

EarthDay, save the earth, save mother nature

Today, April 22, 2020 is Earth Day which is celebrated yearly. It's an international event that started in 1970 with the purpose of letting the people aware of our environment. It is usually celebrated with concerts, demonstrations, and other activities however mother nature has other plans. She made it pretty real that affect everyone with this ongoing corona virus pandemic.

So even if we are in a health crisis and we need to stay home or practice physical distancing, we can still celebrate Earth Day in online events that will raise awareness of ways to protect the environment. Just go to the Earth Day website .

Jane Goodall, the British doctor who is best known as the top expert on chimpanzees said recently in an interview, that the coronavirus pandemic is our fault, because of our disregard for nature and disrespect for animals. "We must stop talking about everything as it benefits us and start realizing that the reason for this pandemic now is because we have shown so little respect for the natural world with destroying more and more forest and animal species being pushed together. Viruses spilling over from one species to another, which normally wouldn't [happen], animals pushed into closer contact with people [farming] for example, another opportunity for spillover of viruses—and then of course, the animal trafficking and export and the number of animals that are being sold in these so-called wet markets in Asia, but also the bush meat in Africa. These viruses have been predicted for many years, and [written about] in the book Spillover by David Quin. People haven't listened; they haven't learned from the last SARS epidemic."