During the Covid lockdowns in India, I saw birds I had not seen in decades. It was amazing; the skies had cleared up, and nature truly was recovering.

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BLKNSLVR 12 hours ago | parent [-]

And humanity as-a-whole learnt nothing.

Let's hope there's some more movement in the right direction as a result of _this_ crisis.

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jraby3 11 hours ago | parent [-]

There will almost certainly be more pandemics and they'll probably be worse. The world is getting smaller, and what takes a super high end lab these days (in terms of virus creation) will be done by college students in 20 years.

	▲	vlachen 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I firmly believe that William Gibson nailed it with the Jackpot in his recent books: nothing you could really call a nuclear war. Just everything else, tangled in the changing climate: droughts, water shortages, crop failures, honeybees gone like they almost were now, collapse of other keystone species, every last alpha predator gone, antibiotics doing even less than they already did, diseases that were never quite the one big pandemic but big enough to be historic events in themselves.