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While like the rest of the world, Mauritius continues to fight against the Covid, it would be interesting to ask ourselves whether, deep down, we are not getting the wrong enemy. After all, the pandemic is never just a creation of our globalized system, since we have not only allowed the virus to reach us, first ignoring the natural boundaries between certain wildlife and us, but also allowed the virus to spread in record time to the four corners of the globe, offering it as many round trips as it wanted on our major airlines and maritime routes.
What is more, the Covid and man have this in common that neither of them seems endowed with common sense, both having the sole objectives of colonizing their immediate environment as quickly as possible and of exhaust, just as quickly, the main resources available in this same space. It is a fact: by multiplying in this way in an organism, the Covid runs to its own loss, as individuals at least, since endangering the body serving as its habitat. In short, it does exactly what humans have always done: it depletes its resources, even if it means having to pay the price one day.
However, despite this astonishing analogy, differences do exist between our two ” cash “. Thus, the virus can change host, and therefore place to colonize, as many times as it is allowed to do so. Unlike us, who currently only have one planet to defile. Conversely, man is endowed with an extraordinary capacity for reasoning. The difference in complexity between our two organisms, one being in fact only a microscopic particle, should in fact protect us from dangers. Of course, man will not always have had this ability to understand the complexity of his environment, to the point of measuring the negative effects of his actions, but we are no longer, as we know, in the era of hunters. -gatherers. Yet while we are able to land a motor vehicle on the surface of Mars with the most minute precision, we are still unable to measure the disasters to come on our own planet. Isn’t this a paradox, a proof of our inconsistency?
Result: while the virus continues to make its way, ” jumping From one organism to another as easily as a flea would, thus ensuring the survival of its species, man, for his part, forgets that he does not have the same faculty, and that it is not. tomorrow the day before that he will be able to colonize other planets. And that this Earth which saw him be born could very well also be the one which will see him disappear. Also, since we obviously do not care about other living members sharing the same space with us, at least we should remember that we only have one planet, and that depleting its resources will precipitate, d ‘one way or another, our demise.
Maybe it wouldn’t be worse, the more sarcastic would say. And that is perhaps true. At least until the vast majority of us understand the aberration of our capitalist system. Whether we are rich or poor, whether we live on top of a skyscraper or in a Ugandan Pygmy hut, we will all pay the price. And useless to hope to monetize our survival with Mother Nature, because she does not care royally! In truth, Nature, since it is of her that it is question, will have made us an ultimate ” gift With the Covid. In a way, a way out (perhaps the only one we will have by the way). A final reminder that we have exceeded the authorized limits and that, if we do not immediately press the brake pedal, the impact will be terrible, irremediable. Without any further backtracking possible. Without worrying, of course, that this is in fact just next to the acceleration one, which we are so fond of, unable that we are unable to draw a line on what, for a moment yet, participates in ” happiness That we are being sold. Perhaps it is all written, after all! We might as well wait quietly for the end of the clap to sound, sitting in a corner of our terrace, cocktail in hand!
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