The planet was in equilibrium, for millions of years; until man made his appearance on the face of the Earth; and in the name of progress, it began to predate natural resources until today it is the greatest predator of the riches of the blue planet. Man destroyed forests and jungles by expanding their lands for agriculture, cattle ranching, drug trafficking, and the construction of roads and cities, and to defuse their disorderly urban and demographic growth.

It turned fertile lands into concrete jungles and today we are witnessing, helplessly, the unstoppable advance of the deserts. He ruthlessly devastated mountains, valleys and plains and polluted rivers and lakes because of his greed for gold, silver, platinum, copper, coal, emeralds, diamonds, and many other precious minerals and metals.

In his mad frenzy for excessive and compulsive consumption, he unceasingly plundered biodiversity resources and catastrophically altered marine and terrestrial ecosystems. It destroyed the habitats of thousands of species, flora and fauna. He disappeared many of them and put others on the verge of extinction, of which there will be no trace whatsoever, only the memory in books and videos of natural history and biology, because not in zoos.

And by destroying forests and rainforests, it awakened viruses that had been inactive for millions of years in their crystalline form and came into contact with them directly or through the improper use, including food consumption, of wild animals that were carriers of these viruses.

In the name of mobility, it converted black gold (oil) into particulate emissions that, together with the chimneys of overwhelming and galloping industrialization, always in the name of progress (and money), polluted the atmosphere, making the air in many cities unbreathable. and creating greenhouse gases.

This is how global warming arose, like a human fever at 40 °, and as with human chills, climate change came to us. Now we say that the weather has gone crazy. And ice melts will come from the poles and snow-capped mountains, and with them the unstoppable rise in sea levels that will make coastal cities disappear in a few years.

In the name of development, read ambition for devious enrichment, man continued his incessant quest of destruction as if he were a destructive, evil and cruel God.

But the man could not continue with his destructive actions, with impunity and hope that there would be no consequences. The planet would not remain undaunted seeing and suffering so much irrationality. Faced with such inclement, brutal and destructive aggression, the Earth’s immune system reacted. Boy did he do it, and in what way!

He sent us his storms, tornadoes, gales and hurricanes. Winter turned into summer, and summer into winter, both with extreme inclement temperatures. It cried furiously its heavy rains and caused uncontrolled flooding. It overheated us with unbearable droughts until the water sources were extinguished. It went into convulsions, manifesting itself with tremors, earthquakes, tidal waves and tsunamis.

And, due to the effects of climate change and tropical ecosystems, diseases inevitably arrived due to the appearance of pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. This is how Sika, Chicungunya, Ebola, Malaria, Dengue, HIV, and the SARS viruses and their variants (H1N1, COVID-19, etc.) and many others, plus those that will appear in the future, each with its variants or mutations, which virologists call strains, usually more aggressive, rendering vaccines useless.

Viruses are part of the planetary immune system, they constitute the manifestation of an action of the fever with which it will destroy the aggressor, as an undesirable bug, through epidemics, pandemics and pandemoniums.

The man attacked the planet and the Earth reacted with its immune system and responded to us with calamities, disasters and pandemics that now put the very existence of man at risk; and if it continues like this, it will erase it from its face and with its immune system it will regenerate itself and one day it will green again… without the presence of the human species.