Time to Turn Nature Smart

Key Messages

Another Earth Day is upon us, reminding us how closely interlinked human, animal, and environmental health are. The theme for this year, ‘Restore Our Earth’, is yet another appeal to us—the inhabitants of this magnificent planet—to make earnest attempts at promoting harmony with nature.
Interestingly, nature itself holds vital cues on how we can go about it.

There is immense wisdom in the way nature functions. From the ideas of natural selection and survival of the fittest that advocate adaptation for survival, to the recently mapped ‘Wood Wide Web’ (the vast, interconnected web of organisms that constitute the forests’ or woods’ underground ecosystem) that shows how resources can be shared efficiently—there is much to be learnt from nature.
We would do well to borrow some of nature’s smartness for restoring our Earth, and, hopefully, save ourselves from the mindlessly self-inflicted disaster of climate change.