Coronavirus is the buzz!
When whole countries go on a lockdown, factories are closed and foreign air traffic grinds to a halt.
The COVID-19 or coronavirus pandemic is expected to result in a dramatic changes.
There is a decrease in global carbon emissions – as has occurred in China already.
This decline would almost definitely be temporary due to coronavirus.
It is however worth wondering whether the world’s dramatic reaction might provide useful lessons for climate change.
Will the works have a low-carbon future with remote jobs and limited flying?
Air pollutant rates and heating emissions in certain towns and regions of the globe see substantial declines.
Meanwhile coronavirus affects daily function and travel.
Planet-heating gas CO2 levels have also plunged significantly.
But, after the pandemic, warning levels may increase rapidly.
As cities and, in certain instances, whole nations are weathering the pandemic under lockdown;
Earth-observing satellites have observed a substantial decrease in the concentration of a specific air pollutant, nitrogen dioxide.
This reaches the environment through vehicle, truck, rail, and power plant pollution.
The decline, seen in China and Europe, correlated with strict on – the-ground social-distancing steps.
Air emissions will significantly damage human health.
It is calculated by the International Health Organization that illnesses from exposure to air pollutants.
It includes stroke, cardiac disease, and respiratory diseases — kill around 4.2 million people a year.
Lessons to learn from Coronavirus –
The global reaction to the coronavirus epidemic demonstrates that policymakers can take urgent, drastic and stringent emergency steps.
These go beyond solely economic considerations, to safeguard the well-being of everyone.
There are concrete insights that we should draw from the emergency of coronavirus while we try to combat climate change:
- Act early – The coronavirus pandemic reveals how important early intervention is to prevent disastrous effects. Governments in Taiwan, South Korea and Singapore have taken quick steps to enforce quarantine and surveillance initiatives.By comparison, Italy, whose government has been taking so long to respond, is now the epicenter of the epidemic.
- Go slow, go local –Coronavirus has prompted an abrupt scale-up to how we work and fly. People establish local ties, buy locally, operate from home and restrict consumption to what they need.
Studies also established that concerns over personal well-being pose a significant obstacle.
They de-grow movement’s political participation to this day.
With social isolation anticipated for months, though, our scaled-down lives will become the “latest standard.”
Many people know that there is no inextricable connection between consumption and personal well-being.
- Spend on clean energy – The International Energy Agency (IEA) claims that renewable technology will be –
“At the core of the coronavirus epidemic action plans.”
The IEA called on policymakers to introduce renewable packages of incentives.
These rely on clean energy technologies.
It also suggests hydrogen and carbon capture require big expenditure to scale them up.
This could be supported by the current low interest rates.
Governments may also utilize coronavirus incentive programs to retrain staff.
This will be done to support the emerging “climate” environment to tackle housing, healthcare, aging, food protection, to education issues.
Conclusion
Climate is to be taken care of at every step. It is the key to long term health sustainability of the human race.
People grow , economies develop and the standard of living improves.
However , we as humans should never forget that nature is our source of existence.
Any step we take to improvise our living and make this world a better place , it must not be forgotten that nature needs to be kept in loop.
In the past there have been multiple instances where people have progressed tremendously with science.
On the other hand , nature had been ignored in the process.
We have come across so many instances where toxic industrial fumes and wastage has been dumped in water bodies.
Trees have been destroyed to make more space for real estate development.
Deforestation has caused tremendous environmental alterations like global warming.
Moreover, even the refrigerators we use on an everyday basis cause harm.
The chlorofluorocarbon emitted by refrigerators deplete the ozone layer to a great extent.
Coronavirus has however bought a positive on the atmosphere.
As the world has moved indoors , the nature is breathing freely.