There is anticipation of a new normal as the world tries to get back on its feet from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that has reached to date a staggering 5.5 million cases of infection, 346,000 deaths, and 2.2 million recoveries in 188 countries. We are challenged to make this recovery a new normal, but as the world and economies open up, we are seemingly online to a slow normal. Indications are emerging that while responses to the crisis are genuine, the strategies are not changing and there is still the inability to grapple with the extent of the problem. National and regional recovery responses still do not reckon the “global-ness” of the problem and “business as usual” is still a sustained mantra, even as an economic development at all costs opened a Pandora’s box and the Shakespearean wish of “a pox on both your houses” has found its mark. The ecological context of the current crisis may not be widely discussed but there should be recognition that the continuous breaching of the planetary boundaries, particularly habitat destruction and biodiversity loss through disastrous land use changes from the Amazon to Australia, has made COVID-19 and future pandemics and seasonal
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