Iâm gonna say this as politely as I can but oh my god I wish people like this would shut up.
Iâm as concerned about the planet as anyone should be but misinformation like this is misleading and dangerous, not to mention disrespectful in the current climate. it will regrettably take years for the planet to heal itself of the damage done to it in the name of human greed â it will not miraculously heal in a couple of weeks.
the canals of Venice are clearer not because of less pollution but because of less boat traffic stirring up sediment and dirt already in the water. itâs all sunk to the bottom and settled, resulting in apparently clearer water. the fish were always there. the dolphins are coming closer because lack of boat traffic means they can go hunt the fish easier.
any wild animals coming into the city are likely curious or looking for interesting food. theyâre not âreclaimingâ anything; anyone whoâs been up late at night and looked out their window would see similar things with nocturnal creatures. itâs just the daylight ones are now doing it, too.
while pollution has gone down in China thanks to lack of traffic and factory production, regrettably this will do nothing in regards to the multitude of other countries belching out pollution into the air. even if it did, the earth will sadly not heal from decades of abuse in a couple of weeks.
people are dying. this guilt-inducing insinuation that humans somehow deserve it, or this virus is a good thing, is uncharitable and cruel. especially when you consider that a vast majority of the people causing and enabling the abuse of the planet are the rich ruling class, and the everyday person â the kind of person most at risk of expsoure to this virus â has no say in it. we all already suffer from enough guilt in our daily lives thanks to oil executives pushing the idea that our drinking from plastic straws and watching Netflix is the problem; we donât need pseudo-deep tweets telling us that weâre the real virus, too â especially not when the things tweets like this are implying are all wrong anyway.
