The Man-made Pandemic

The Man-made Pandemic

Different trees, rivers, valleys, mountains, birds, and animals are some of the infinite creations of God. The eternal power, God gifted these creations to mankind to beautify and purify our lives and in return the God expected us to take care of his precious creations.   

But many times a question pops up in my mind, "Do we deserve these creations?" , "Are we truly valuing these creations?" , Are we performing the role which was designated to us as humans by the creator"? The answer to these questions is not in favor of mankind. 

God provided these creations to us for our own sake, but we humans have become the cruel ringmasters on the earth trying to dominate our will on his creations. We have become the most dangerous species on Earth. We have triggered a major extinction period, thus threatening even our survival.

The time is quickly running out of our hand and there is a great need for us to understand that God gave us a great role to maintaining a peaceful balance among different species on the Earth, protecting and preserving various natural resources we have been blessed with and to maintain an ecological balance otherwise we are publishing an invitation for our destruction.

We are so recklessly exploiting and consuming the resources on the Earth without realizing that the survival of our upcoming generation is at risk. Global warming and pollution will make their existence difficult.

It is rightly said that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The reckless and merciless actions of humans too have an opposite reaction in the shape of various natural disasters like frequent earthquakes, floods, famines, climatic change, high rise in oceanic water level due to melting of glaciers due to ozone depletion, natural pandemics like the Covid-19 because of which the whole world, the whole mankind is suffering due to the reckless actions of some greedy people.

Though COVID -19 is a natural pandemic, yet its causes include the reckless hunting and illegal killing of animals and birds. So it is not obverse to say that COVID-19 is a consequence of greedy and violent actions of humans and thus, it can be even referred to as a manmade pandemic, and now the whole mankind is serving the punishment for their crimes. 

It is a high time for all of us to realize that we are not the masters of the Earth but instead, we are only tenants here, who do not own the planet but just have a temporary time hold in here, just like other living species and instead of forging our domination over other species, we need to build up a partnership with them, where each partner has equal status and equal rights. It is time for all of us to wake up from our sleep and swing into some action to protect our mother Earth and the various artistic and valuable creations of God before the time runs out of our hands.

- Kusharg