Covid-19 has taught us that no one is stronger than nature. The far we go from nature the more vulnerable we become. The natural we live the more sustainable our life is.

The impact of climate change on corona virus causing pandemic is still unknown, but only lesson we can learn that all country should make joint effort to save environment as the natural or biological problems are not confined to any national boundary.

Good point, I think, this initiative already is going on

Many thanks. this is helpful. I will have a look at these shortly.

Yes, it is very likely that the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic can teach us how to understand and take greater responsibility for a climate change disaster. However, one of the main differences concerns the time of development of individual crises and the factors causing them. Well, the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic is likely to be a problem for several weeks or months. However, the climate crisis will develop much more slowly, i.e. in the period of the next min. several dozen years. Climate change is so slow that a significant proportion of people still do not notice, do not want to notice or notice the effects of these changes in practice.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Thanks for your response and I do agree with you. I think we need to take responsibility from both perspectives (individually and structurally). Individually can grow our own foods whenever possible (through garden and community garden, responsible for other everyday actions); however, I do not know how to make structurally change such as institutional responsibilities (i.e., State governments, and NGOs). Well, the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic has showing our institutions how to make the structural changes, if we can learn from it. Otherwise, there may be many more pandemics upcoming like the Covid-19 Coronavirus. This is high time to be responsible for our understanding and everyday actions. Thanks again. Stay safe.

Thanks, Ali, for your response. You are right, we need to start from "ME", and at the same time, we need to build solidarity for structural change at our institutions including at our family, community, national, and international level,

Yes! This should be a powerful wake-up call!

Possibly for all global challanges.

Covid-19 has taught us that no one is stronger than nature. The far we go from nature the more vulnerable we become. The natural we live the more sustainable our life is.

Thanks, Amita, for your response. Yes, you are right. Nature is stronger than no one. As a human, we have been destroying the most part. Therefore, I thought, we have the responsibility to reverse this situation. This is high time to do this, there is no alternative, and it should start from "me" and "you." Thanks

This pandemic virus has shown that majority can behave and hence pay more attention to the environment. People can breath pure air in various cities worldwide during this confinement.

Thanks Samir Mekid for your response. I think COVID-19 gave us the opportunity to transform our ways of life. If we do not learn from this, we will suffer more as we have been destroying our ecosystem for our [human] greediness.

Yes, of course, the Covid-19 outbreak can train us to understand the climate change disaster and take more responsibility. And also; will direct us to think about them our priorities, goals, beliefs, ambitions, etc. in life.

Thanks, Ilhami Unluoglu for your response. I hope the COVID-19 outbreak helps us to transform us to change our thinking and acting toward to protect us, our future generation, and our environment. It is high time to be responsible. We need to act in ways that nature does not need us, but we need nature.

Nature is the leader in this world. It creates and destroys things when it wants. If we live according to nature by protecting nature, automatically nature protects us and enrich our lives. But if we destroy nature, nature tries to eliminate us from nature. Best thing is living according to the nature. This COVID-19 outbreak clearly shows how nature control human. People cage animals, but we are caged inside our houses now. Nature stop all human activities and starts its own activities, to recharge nature. Nature tries to protect itself for the next generation. This is the best time to stop sideffects of industrial revolution and start nature revolution. We cannot live without nature. Nature is the everything. Nature has solutions for any problem.

Thanks Dulmi Bamunuarachchi for your nice comments. We also need to change our greedy ways of life whereas only humans consider as everything and nature become "others". For, doing this, we need to reclaim our traditional ways of life, knowledge, and practice. Our traditional knowledge and practice may help us to rebuild our food sovereignty and care for our environment.

yes I think

Many people who made a joke against climate change have also tried to trivialize corona virus. However, the last one was deadly, so they have learned their lesson by respecting nature more. There are exceptions to that, such as the least educated among us, such as Donald Trump.

Thanks, Michael Issigonis

I think Donald Trump is a result of the neoliberal capitalistic system. Donald Trump created by millions of his supporters which is even more deadly. That why we need to reshape our system by keeping our environment as our top priority. We should start this process before it too late as an individual, as a family, and as a community level.

yes, I think that

Please go through this article

https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/what-can-the-covid-19-pandemic-teach-us-about-climate-change/

Thanks Ali Raza Jahejo for this link. This is an interesting and timely article

Ranjan Datta Yes, dear it is interesting.

Yeah, of course.

Due to lock down the whole world for COVID-19, the world has gained 500 years of its total lifetime, said by the scientists.

Yes, COVID-19 pandemic is a very good lesson to the world leaders and scientists. Probably they have got the message that they should do something more to save the world.

Thanks, Harasit Kumar Paul and Bezon Kumar for your comments. I think we need our system change, we have seen that current the neo-liberal system is not working, it's denial consequence of climate change. If we do not take a lesson to change our system from this pandemic, there are many pandemics yet to come. The system change is very difficult, most time the society is not ready for it, we have seen this during the french revolution (1789); however, we need to take responsibility individually from our research, practice, and understanding. At the same time, we need to develop our allyships for creating new common ground from our solidarity to bring environmental social justice.

Of course , yes

The virus has indicated to us indirectly that we pollute the earth and make the climate extreme and difficult to survive.

It is very clear to everyone that travel and fossil fuels have polluted the planet, yet we are still unwilling to change our ways. We should be desperate to get rid of the fossil fuels. Private efforts should increase, but it is the government efforts for very generous incentives to eliminate fossil fuels that should get desperate.

Right now the incentives to use alternative fuels are not generous or non-existent.

I agree with you Michael Issigonis

Although many of us know many alternatives and the consequence of fossil fuels, the neoliberal system forced us not to believe in it, not to act against it, and not to change the system. Most parts of the world are standing on neoliberal corporate greediness, including profit maximization, poverty, environmental distraction, and many more. The systematic change will not come until we (as an individual, family, and community) do not take responsibility to change us, and make solidarity movements against environmental, social, and cultural racism.

Climate change is indirectly related to its origin and we should behave in that way to preserve our nature. We have to trade off between urbanization and safety of natural resources.

Thanks, Muhammed Ashraful Alam for your comments. Yes, I agree that we need to consider our environment at the top of our all needs. Although history has been proving us many lessons, we human (particularly neoliberal governments, industries, policy and practices) have been denying for a long time. Therefore, for me, it's high time to take our own responsibility individually from our family and community and create research-based solidarity.

The world often can only handle one disaster at a time. I suspect that once we have prevailed over coronavirus, ignorance will settle in with the excuse of needing respite.

Kindly consult these papers and use them as baseline references - if you think

Yes, if this type of message reaches people. If people understand that more and more often occurring climate and natural disasters, epidemics etc. are symptoms of progressive climate change, accelerating global warming process and constantly increasing pollution of the natural environment, decreasing green areas and other negative aspects of the development of civilization, maybe in the next over the years, activities aimed at protecting the natural environment, protecting the biodiversity of natural ecosystems and significantly increasing the scale of implementation of the principles of sustainable development into economic activity and the transformation of the economy in accordance with the concept of green economy and circular economy will be increased. If this happens, it will be possible to state that the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic SARS-CoV-2 (causing Covid-19 disease) pandemic will increase public awareness in a few years at the earliest.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

I agree with you, Respected Amita Gaire

Thanks Sana Noreen for reminding about Amita Gaire

Amita Gaire you said well.

Most Welcome sir

Yes

Yes, my hope is that the SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) coronavirus pandemic can and should teach us how to understand and take greater responsibility for the disaster caused by climate change. The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic should contribute to increasing the general social awareness of pro-ecological and social environmental (ecological) responsibility. If this really happens, the scope of implementing the principles of sustainable development, pro-ecological reforms in implementing eco-innovations to economic processes, etc. should be increased, and thus the process of pro-ecological transformation of the traditional brown economy into a sustainable green economy / circular economy will be accelerated. It is important because there is little time left to stop the deepening problem of unfavorable climate change processes, the progressing global warming process. Most depends on what humanity will do in this matter in the next decade. I described more broadly the issues of the determinants of the pro-ecological transformation of the traditional brown economy into a sustainable green economy / circular economy in my publication, which I posted in August 2020 on the Research Gate portal. I invite you to research cooperation.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Yes of course, the nature knows best how to teach mankind.

Although we don’t have direct evidence that climate change is influencing the spread of COVID-19, other research on climate change alters how we relate to other species on Earth and that matters to our health and our risk for infections.

As the earth heats up, animals big and small, on land and in the sea, are headed to the poles to get out of the heat. That means animals are coming into contact with other animals they normally wouldn’t, and that creates an opportunity for pathogens to get into new hosts.

Many of the root causes of climate change also increase the risk of pandemics. Deforestation, which occurs mostly for agricultural purposes, is the largest cause of habitat loss worldwide. Loss of habitat forces animals to migrate and potentially contact other animals or people and share germs. Large livestock farms can also serve as a source for the spillover of infections from animals to people. Less demand for animal meat and more sustainable animal husbandry could decrease emerging infectious disease risk and lower greenhouse gas emissions.

We have many reasons to take climate action to improve our health and reducing risks for infectious disease emergence is one of them.

The virus came the right moment when people were doing everything to increase climate change by burning fossil fuels travelling around the world for no real reason. The virus stopped these wasted activities and cleared the air a bit, but everyone stopped and noticed that nature is cleaner now than before.

Now people need to rethink how to face nature: Start polluting again or respect nature and provide new methods to generate energy?

With the high rate of deaths, loss of business, and social anxiety worldwide, the impact of Covid-19 has redefined the way we live and to be mindful that life is precious.

Thanks Michael Issigonis for your comment, appreciated your time. I agree with you; however, at the same time, I also think that it's not only fossil fuels or another single issue, it's about our neo-liberal greedy mindset. We need to decolonize our minds regarding climate change and our responsibilities. We need to look for transnational and transdisciplinary solutions so that everyone can participate in this movement. From my perspective, only scientists can not save us. We all (local communities, academics, governments, industries, and etc) need to be part of our collective movement. At the same time, we need to be political to center community perspectives and traditional knowledge as these perspectives have been pushed back through scientific worldviews for a long time.

Thanks Ravee Art Phoewhawm for your comment. Yes, if we are still in denial, maybe many pandemics yet to come. Therefore, it is high time to take responsibility, be political, be an agent of change for us and others.