Warning from the top of the world

As the COVID-19 pandemic surges on, a historic German expedition force has returned from a year’s research of the Arctic region with the conclusion; “the sea-ice is dying”.

The scientific voyage’s findings after witnessing the ice disappearing - even in the North Pole are further evidence that Planet Earth is disintegrating. “In a few years, we will have an ice-free Arctic -- this will have a major impact on the climate around the world,” said the professor who led a hundred-strong team of scientists who took turns studying the ‘top of the world’. COVID-19 today is considered as nature’s revenge. It is said that the way earthlings live today is an invitation for animal viruses to infect humans. A TIME magazine report this week states an estimated 80 billion animals are slaughtered worldwide -- mostly from factory farms, annually for meat. That provides for only 18 percent of calories but takes up 80 percent of the Earth’s farmland. Human extensions into natural habitat through roads, deforestation, factories etc, interfere with nature, warn disease ecologists.

The spate of recent reports of illegal deforestation, even in places like Sinharaja, may bring short-term gain to humans but at long- term expense. Together with the prospect that melting ice will cause rising sea levels must surely be matters of serious concern to an island-nation of finite square kilometres and a burgeoning population.