Changed the world as we know it. Coming to you from my neighborhood on the outskirts of mumbai for all of us and 202019 isnt life changing event impacting every system and process on our planet and theres no single visual that can summarize this for the history books millions have been left with no profit income on the one hand on the other it has never been cleaner during my lifetime how does the lockdown change the habitat lets take a closer. In march crowded mumbai became a ghost city that its a desert didnt could never have even dreamed of. India underwent one of the most rigorous lock downs of the corporate crisis as 1300000000 people were placed under curfew with 4 hours notice. On the surface it seemed like nature in indian cities was catching its breath as roads were almost empty and industries shut down. However environmentalists say that this is only temporary and the cause of a crisis has exposed some surprising findings. Now despite when there was there was no transport on the rule and dustys percent are a daily pollution was still moderate so this tell us that. There is a significant source of natural pollution natural dust pollution which is a bad thing they said so if they think that we can meet the way to air quality guidelines i want to respond by just looking at regular pollution Industrial Estate we will have a lot on our you know Natural Regeneration involved station so i dont want to ration Water Conservation actually to improve their quality. The lockdown has been devastating to the Indian Economy. Especially hard hit internal migrants who work in cities and have not been able to return to their village homes. They were seen across of in india waiting for public transport are just to be given packets of food. But our job situation is really back indias total only employment district is about 400000000. 00 people and the video that is coming out is that about 200. 00 people are unemployed that most of these unemployment is an ongoing. People who are suddenly in the Service Sector whether industrial malls or cinema halls on transports that they are worst. Environmentalists are calling for major changes in current social and Environmental Policies but the cracks have been exposed by current. Virus. They are warning against using methods that countries have adopted in the past to kickstart economies. What governments do after pandemic is to you know all in the economy and really the rule by as much as possible and the easiest possible means available is exploitation of Climate Change is going to hear just very very hard. Our emissions and. Climate and saw will happen to respect to water and bio. So the business as usual is no more an option for us people who are green economy. Gender bhushan predicts that the Indian Economy will go into the session for a long time poster call the crisis. India must decide how it will emerge after lock down and how it can continue to grow economically while caring for its environment and all its citizens. Now another impact of the lock down is the difficulty in getting it out especially with public transport being shot or reduced more and more people in many parts of the world are turning to cycling as a reliable turnitin and governments like germanys are responding to this spike by opening up emergency bike lanes the question is can cycling become integrity of the transport systems. Public transport during the coronavirus might not be the best idea so what is a safe way to get through the city under the current social distancing groups. More and more as a getting on my bikes and the city has reacted to this new trend by adding cycle lanes. Usually takes years due to administrative procedures is now happening in days. Because amid the pandemic cyclists need more space on the roads. With no money in gold the bodies out of the crowd do very dangerous to look at it and i wish id been used more safe in my opinion theres so much room for my bike now but the great ought to be like this everywhere for cyclists. These provisional bike lanes will be in place for at least a couple of months according to fix my spray he had of roads and green spaces and balanced preacher time points but district. Has eaten off the i dont like these are the old road markings you can see that the cycle paths used to be very narrow and you can imagine that if a cyclist overtake someone whos cycling slowly there wont be 1. 00 metres between them on apart from so wider cycling paths are crucial right out. Of the water storm. Safety activists are calling them pop up bike lanes and looking at social media you can see that theyre hopping up all over the world like in past 6 city in the philippines. In france near paris. In brussels belgium. In the u. S. State of new york. And in albania they were built over night. In berlin the new bike lanes used to be Parking Spaces a change that isnt making everyone happy where will my customers park now they come here. On by myself parked in the back but we only have 4 or 5 spaces there. Its chaos. But this is what biking generally looks like palin. And she finally is part of the changing cities and initiative which is how painting for a new traffic policy. Ok this is what you mean right yeah thats exactly what i mean coronavirus restrictions car traffic was reduced by 30 percent and public transport recorded up to 80 percent fewer passengers only the number of cyclists went up and she hopes the crisis might make the streets more bike friendly. I imagine all the time howard would be with less cars like here all the 2 cars parked could be just. He could plant flowers with the chairs off the cafe with there could be a playground for everything. It might sound like blue sky thinking but the pandemic is resulting in improvements for cyclists and other german cities underground the world bank but the past milan mexico city bogota a numerous other cities have also introduced short term street closures and temporary bike lanes. In. We might be temporary grounded for many more weeks or even months to come but thanks to the internet we can top this big beautiful world from pretty much anywhere without destroying our harming the involvement with Carbon Dioxide emissions what your thoughts can now take you to feel the storm is the best. Nations historic museums and even interview local people you would rarely get to meet otherwise. Travelling has become impossible since to world has been grappled by the novel coronavirus. Many countries across the world has closed the borders and havent closed travel restrictions to curb the spread of the deadly backus. Over 2000000000 people around the world are currently under lockdown. And its not just people refuge 2 thirds of the worlds passenger jets have been grounded as well putting an unprecedented strain on the aviation and tourism industry. Now tourism boards across the world are offering Virtual Tours of their countries for free. Oh you can just go along the great wall of china oh. Explore. Take in the wonder of. The word check how politics should help blossoming in auditory right now. You can virtually visit National Parks across the world. From california. To austria. You can look at over 2500 museums crust to go from college. Thank you thank you. And you can even take the rocks from the living. The big Tourism Sector now launching a. Welcome to respond platform where we will have your portrait in the next to one another. Looking. To speak. My home heres my lady. You know who are you what. Are you thinking of classes and what you saw like scholar or painters you saw on. The rebound. Were practically searching our logs for greece sowing things that we know about our friends are wrong we were lucky as well like food like music like wine just people you know how we know how being the feeling but having grief its not like you know like a saints come. Calling for me oh my thanks to ordinary people that we were all were going through. Went one step further and introduced personalized unexperienced isnt really a problem. I think. I should see them. Close across the world offering workshops on line. Such as healing adjectives. Thats really a little bit. Foreign culture could be a traditional moroccan young. Ruler oh on one of the classes an experience i had i had video how to end cars and 50 u. S. Dollars. Some experts believe the trend he did to travel and connect may continue even ones going to restrictions have been going lifted. We are going towards. The right. Its expected to tourism go turn more local and digital in the future which would further hurt deviation in the street it could also decrease Carbon Emissions and have a positive impact on. What you will travel at least till we have a good half to support middle tier t. P. S. The expedience of sensing the p. Is for what it actually is so many people ive spoken to cotton p. Bond to their homes we need to get back into need to in mumbai a unique walk for tourists woods puts you in touch with how habitats developed at all the cities is welcome on the other side. Cities are often built by reclaiming land dredging soil and driving Indigenous People out to make way for development and urban life as we know it. Indias Boston Financial capital mumbai is similar it was once only home to indigenous communities like the coolie fisherman and morley tribe. To connect this bridge between the past and the present to of mumbais current residents started an Organization Called go that translates as go slow it invites city duelist to ram down the face of their daily lives reflect and reconnect with the original land the city was built on. One way on and so then off and they show mumbai in very glamorous. Run of things. Heavy days walks every day of mumbai and we dont see other side of mumbai thats why dont we is beautiful if you see this or this item in the ground i was very interested either side is very vibrant and this reverse of the good. Thing is the most personal to your favorites of a lip service. To this walk is called the river walk it has degraded in recent years causing mumbai to become extremely vulnerable to flooding and water Borne Disease but the wally community of no part out that has lived along these banks for generations has a different approach to the river and forest many aspects of their traditional ways of life remain intact and in the guys house is an embodiment of their philosophy a decades old star mined mound is safely. Within the protective boundary of her brick wall she has no means of income and it is the Community Around her participants on the Heritage Walk that supports her in a frightening trend the government has now categorized her community as illegal settlers. They want to now demolish our homes they dont want a trace of the Indigenous People we didnt even have access to water i used to carry large pitchers to the river to fetch water every day was. Another member of the community is an artist whose family has lived in alberta for 7 generations. To a tribal art form he tells their stories with natural objects and paint made from stones bought up gets a share in. Earnings through these books. The Forest Department believes that we are outsiders and they want to relocate us plan to build hotels for example but they dont know our culture and traditions the dont want to consider how we tribals leave more than 50 percent of us on the traditional cooking stoves and work outdoors if they relocate us to an apartment complex where we lead. The way to where we are chickens it will be a huge problem. We can do with the forest. You know. Today members of the World Community work at the century as caretakers gods and gardeners they have always looked after their forest and lived. Off its fruits and fish. For a City Developer the scene psni seem unreal even though this part as our communities have been living in their backyard. For mention in the morning if somebody had been like you mentioned you never knew of this bar like after party or as he came to know probably that you know was this part i know its early start really even i dont know about something maybe im standing on the National Bank of new york for your the biggest takeaway for me is the sheer interaction that ive had with the Beautiful People here we live in in a cocoon we stay away from the very people we share a city with so im glad i interacted with the warring people here. This is called the darvon plant if you chop a bit of this grind it and drink its water every day it is safe to help with fever and in controlling diabetes. We dont try to preach about it. And then people when you come to this. Part of our example you realize that there is so much of interaction between and women there were people learn how the community is going to land and the environment and that in itself is a lesson and its probably through that experience that people like testing the food or drinking the water or taking a dip in the river and similarly another experiences these are the kind of things that are told only through stories and no amount of preaching will. Go 100. 00 charges participants a 1000 rupees for each of their walks experiences that strive to break down walls between different communities living within a city while hoping to encourage a more inclusive and impacted seek coexistence. Now when we get the chance to step outside into a leecher many of us my from look at the trees clowns birds animals and the ocean and call them priceless it may not be so in the literal sense economists are trying to stagnate not because they want to sell it but because they want to see. What is a tree. City trees help to lower temperatures on a hot summer day most people meet at urban parks like this to play sports go jogging things like that these are the benefits people get from city parks. Than 10 seconds is a professor of environmental economics he calculates the economic value of Ecosystem Services. Simply services that nature provides for humans are known as Ecosystem Services they are utilities nature supplies us with wood water food secondly it supplies Regulatory Services the nature regulates the climate trees absorb c o 2 from the atmosphere and beyond that we have Cultural Services of places where people can engage in recreational recuperate and we have a 4th category nature Supportive Services board like the soil processes that make the ground for a child. These services are not taken into account politically or economically wetlands for instance twice as much c o 2 as all forests put together but they are drained and destroyed full farming construction. Become one of the. There is also a clear monetary cost of that is we can very clearly calculate the value of a wetland for storing carbon and for other services this leads to conservation programs all private individuals can buy tracts of drained wetland and try to rehydrate them. Mangroves are another valuable resource they will pose in full Coastal Protection and biodiversity the losses caused by mangrove destruction by 2050 will amount to more than 1800000000 euros in value for the region. The mangroves are coastal forests that often grow into the water theyve been largely destroyed in some countries up to 50 or 60 percent in indonesia for example in many cases restoring them is very expensive and laborious this shows that we often make very short Term Economic decisions but the long term effects are not given adequate consideration. Every ecosystem has to function whether it serves as a protector. And the impacts on regional theyre also Global Marine ecosystems in particular. The earths coral reefs make up perhaps only one percent of the Ocean Surface but they are absolutely vital for the bio diversity of marine life values of coral reefs are especially high to 1000000. 00 euros per square kilometer about 25 percent of corals have already been destroyed by coral bleaching and even if we were to achieve a 2 degree target this would hardly save the earths carles they face the greatest threat. Environmental destruction often has no cost for the perpetrators and even if companies in europe pay for this c o 2. 00 emissions is that enough. Do we calculate the damage done by a ton of c o 2 for example should we only calculate the damage for germany if a ton of c o 2 is emitted should we also consider that the south sea islands are being inundated you see working out the social price of carbon is also an ethical question. Environmental cost calculation can put the environments real value into a totally new perspective. 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