What role does nature and the environment have now?

What role does nature and the environment have now? Has anything changed? What words have carried into action?

“Today, the world urgently needs a new such commitment to nature as we recover from COVID-19. Nature should be at the heart of the recovery we seek.” Lord Zach Goldsmith, UK Minister for the Environment.

“An important pillar in our post-COVID recovery plan must be to arrive at an ambitious, measurable and inclusive framework, because keeping nature rich, diverse and flourishing is part and parcel of our life’s support system.”

Inger Andersen, head of UNEP

"Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies you too will die” John Hollow Horn, Oglala Lakota. 1850 – 1913