by Una Hearne. Covid 19 doesn't respect country borders, it uses humans to travel across the world freely. Nothing in nature recognises human borders. The air and water we depend on circulate around the entire planet. The destruction of our environment is not contained within country borders, in either cause or effect. Nature will not discriminate in its response. Our actions could be ensuring our own extinction. Chief Seattle said 'Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man does not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand ...