Green activists say COVID-19 is Earth's angry revenge The Taj city’s green activists think COVID-19 is mother Earth’s angry revenge against wanton exploitation of nature and mad civilisational craze for | 23 April 2021 4:32 AM GMT AGRA: The Taj city's green activists think COVID-19 is mother Earth's angry revenge against wanton exploitation of nature and mad civilisational craze for development without a human face. At an interactive session early Thursday to mark Earth Day at the Yamuna bank, environmentalists blamed developed countries for the pandemic that has threatened life in an unprecedented way. They warned of serious consequences of untamed, profit-motivated industrialisation and haphazard urbanisation chiefly responsible for the deteriorating quality of life and threats to mass health.