EDITORIAL: The Straits Times says: A silver lining for the environment
The Straits Times
A silver lining for the environment
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As the world grapples with the sickness and death brought by the Covid-19 pandemic, people are seeing pockets of brightness. Confined to their homes during the lockdown that brought their city to a standstill, the denizens of Wuhan noticed that the sky had turned clear and blue instead of being thick with smog. They could hear birds sing without the incessant noise of traffic. Halfway across the world in the Italian city of Venice, also under a shutdown to contain the virus, the usually murky waters of the fabled canals turned a clear blue-green. Readings from a European Space Agency satellite showed that the levels of nitrogen dioxide – produced by car engines, power plants and industrial processes – over cities and industrial areas in Asia and Europe were significantly lower than for the same period last year. A pollution expert remarked this could be the future if the world moved to a low-carbon economy.
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……….. These are working from home and online conferencing that reduce travel, shortening supply chains as firms source material nearer markets, vacationing closer to home, buying and consuming less and so on. If governments and individuals could do these things to reduce global warming, that would be one good outcome of this horrific global pandemic crisis.
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