Opinion: Corona Correction
Was the world turning too fast? Spinning out of control? Our global warming ways, carefree and reckless. International travel, dirty hands, meaningless conversations.
Suddenly, we've been forced to slow down, re-evaluate our lives, reconsider what is essential and what isn't. The planes were crisscrossing the globe filled with tourists and business travellers which, in many cases, didn’t need to happen, burning through buckets of jet-fuel. In the age of high-speed Internet, we can have a 5-minute chat face-to-face, eliminating 40 hours of travel and a million tonnes of carbon.
Is the planet fighting back? Is this an automatic trigger that gets activated once a certain threshold is reached? Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures due to smoking factories?
Now we’re working from home again, not even traveling to the office. Does that equate to a lower volume of traffic on the roads? Less fumes, accidents and road rage?
We’re being forced to return to a simpler time, with less stress, cherishing our families and loved ones, appreciating our health and ability to just spend quality time with them, talking, living, breathing.
Appreciate it while it lasts and take care of yourselves. Once this virus has passed, it will likely be back to business as usual – such is the short-term memory of humans.
Suddenly, we've been forced to slow down, re-evaluate our lives, reconsider what is essential and what isn't. The planes were crisscrossing the globe filled with tourists and business travellers which, in many cases, didn’t need to happen, burning through buckets of jet-fuel. In the age of high-speed Internet, we can have a 5-minute chat face-to-face, eliminating 40 hours of travel and a million tonnes of carbon.
Is the planet fighting back? Is this an automatic trigger that gets activated once a certain threshold is reached? Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, increasing temperatures due to smoking factories?
Now we’re working from home again, not even traveling to the office. Does that equate to a lower volume of traffic on the roads? Less fumes, accidents and road rage?
We’re being forced to return to a simpler time, with less stress, cherishing our families and loved ones, appreciating our health and ability to just spend quality time with them, talking, living, breathing.
Appreciate it while it lasts and take care of yourselves. Once this virus has passed, it will likely be back to business as usual – such is the short-term memory of humans.