Nature’s revenge on humankind’s destruction
TOTAL global military expenditure in 2020 was about $2 trillion (R26.8trn). With this astronomical sum the world assembled and deployed weaponry on land, at sea, in the air and in outer space to prevent any attack on earth by friend or foe.
The immense destructive power of these 21st-century weapons has the awesome capacity to kill every living being on this planet four times over, yet this entire arsenal was rendered impotent and obsolete by a biological intruder measuring (65125nm in diameter).
Man has ruled and exploited the earth for 200 000 years. During this time he destroyed the web of life, billions of years in the making, upon which human society depends for clean air, water and everything else.
We are killing and eating 300 mammal species into extinction. Since the dawn of civilisation, man has caused the loss of 83% of all the wild mammals and half of all plants, 80% of marine mammals and 15% of fish.
The living world is disappearing before our eyes. Two-thirds of the tortoise and turtle species could be extinct within 20 years. In the oceans, three centuries of whaling has left a fifth of marine mammals in the oceans. We fail to realise that we are heading for a catastrophic showdown with nature. One million animal and plant species are now threatened with extinction.
We are dangerously threatening our life support systems which are fundamental to our existence. We use 54 000 ships to conduct unrestricted global trade and in the process we have dumped an estimated at 1.9 million pieces of microplastic pieces per one square metre of seafloor in the ocean.
In November 2019, an assassin was born – the mission was to avenge the decimation of planet earth, it’s place of birth was shrouded in mystery, it was biologically baptised with the name Covid-19, it’s insignia was a corona star, a signature that has terrified 8 billion people into submission.
Humanity fled into isolation as the avenger raced at astronomical speeds to extract biological justice from Homo sapiens, who were guilty of crimes against the ecosystem of planet earth. Mankind went into global alert. The new prince of darkness and death evaded and compromised man’s most lethal military umbrella by sneaking aboard the most powerful warship on earth, the nuclear aircraft carrier, Theodore Roosevelt. Attacking its captain and crew, it crawled onto all the exotic cruise ships plying the world oceans, turning journeys of joy into voyagers into the pits of hell.
Panic-stricken experts have labelled it as Hostis Humani Generis,a Latin term for “Enemy of mankind”. Unless we repent and make amends, the next viral assassin will deliver the ultimate coup de grace. We are in the grip of a third wave, a fourth and fifth wave lurk over the horizon.