Covid-19 pandemic: a providential warning from Nature

Abstract

We are travelling through the infinity of the Universe on planet Earth, a spaceship with 7.8 billion passengers that can never "land" anywhere, can never dock at any port to load resources or unload waste. The resources on which we passengers can count are the limited materials that make up the spaceship and the sunlight. Any damage has to be fixed and any problem has to be solved by us passengers, without disembarking. Scientists have been warning for many years that we are not guarding the planet, and sociologists warn that the enormous economic and social inequalities are becoming unsustainable. In the last few months, a dangerous and highly contagious virus, Covid-19, is circulating on the spaceship Earth. We should take it as a providential warning from Nature to move toward ecological and social sustainability.