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COVID-19: Can we flatten the un-sustainability curve? -Venkatesh Dutta

-Down to Earth

The Earth needs to resurrect and heal. It is the right time to define collective growth and prosperity, not in terms of rising income but rising ecological wellbeing

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and Ebola have shaken the global economy and society in the last two decades. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) disease is following suit. The nature has hit a reset button.

Economies are in a state of seizure. This type and scale of viral outbreak is first-of-its-kind in our lifetime. A pandemic can be controlled by closing borders — but nature has no boundaries. We must remember that on our planet, everything is connected to everything else.

Virus is a symptom — a reminder that we have to be prepared for even bigger lockdowns in future. It is a wake-up call from nature for the choices we are making.

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