Poetic Justice?

A conversation with a friend and a new perspective to look at our current scenario. For years man has been relentless in his pursuit of achieving progress and making advancements-some personal and some for mankind. Truly history is witness that there have been several selfless endeavors in this direction. But in this pursuit, have we been ( actually the truth is that we have been) exploiting and abusing non human living species that exist along with us? The intelligent species we are, with each new advancement we proposed , we selectively ignored the impact of our action on countless species that once co existed with us , some, now, endangered and many, extinct. We never paused, never retraced our steps to correct actions that stood to impact living species around us. A few collective voices were raised and some small steps were made ( thank you to those who cared) but for most life was all about us human species. There were several pandemics that affected other living species, threatened their existence, some before our time and some during our time but they did not hold front page news coverage.
Today the existence of man is threatened. We don't know what the future holds for us. In the midst of this the birds fly, squirrels hop around , animals and critters move about unfazed. An unknown unseen virus threatens mankind. Is it is poetic justice? Are we too late? or are we just in time to realize the importance of harmony and co existence. Will the end of this pandemic restore the world back to the way it should be without us or with us?