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Re:Lessons in Scale and Impact from 'My Octopus Teacher' by mensetmanusman on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @03:52PM (#24780780)
“Lockdown restrictions have had the unintended benefit of increasing the amount of time people are spending in nature.”

This struck me. Imagine if the Gaia theory is ‘correct’, and one of the feedback mechanisms for an overstressed planet is the release of pandemics that force humans to consider their surroundings more closely.

Re:Lessons in Scale and Impact from 'My Octopus Teacher' by pkw792 on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @04:19PM (#24781089)
It's tempting and enticing to want to think that way, however, lockdown in corrupt South Africa was and is harsh and brutal to the extent that people aren't allowed to roam freely in nature. People and children were arrested, assaulted, handcuffed, etc. for taking a walk or going for a quick surf on a deserted beach.