I am neither an economist nor any ecologist to write this but this came into my mind and reminded me of something which I read few years back (references in the last paragraph). I belong to a millennial generation and is growing up in a digital world always surrounded by electronics items. But this phase of time is reminding me of the people of GI generation/ Gen-X, who witnessed pandemics of flus and the age of pestilence where humans saw the spread of infectious disease to a large number of people all across the world.
Today the stocks are plunging and entering a bearish market. Volatility and stress is increasing in the economy. Universities and schools are getting closed, employees are recommended to do work from home. Grocery stores are running out of resources, including toilet papers, sanitizers and in the coming time some food. Airlines are cancelling flights and are waiting to loose billions in their sales.
Are we writing a prelude to some slump? Humans are technically progressing at a blistering pace. We are in the age of artificial intelligence, robotics, quantum computing, artificial births, implantations and what not. But despite all this, technical progress is unable to solve the fallibility of human nature (ref: John Gray- Is human progress an illusion?) and Garret Hardin's idea of tragedy of commons that humans should embrace a world of limits. Still diving and pondering over this.
