2020 proves that nature still has a say in our survival
The plague year 2020 was yet another brutal rejoinder to the belief that brute forces can be pushed to the margins of, and eventually out of, humanityâs experience. When todayâs pandemic recedes, what should linger is a quickened appreciation of the fragility of life and social arrangements. And an awareness that things much worse than COVID-19 have happened before, and will continue to happen. The human story is not entirely about human choices. The 1918-1919 âSpanish flu,â which began in Kansas, killed between 50 million and 100 million people worldwide, lowered U.S. lif...