Groceries medicines the internet and other essential but millions of people across the country are struggling to survive every single day the pandemic has 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 image of visual that can summarize this for the history books millions have been left with no proper income on the one hand on the other the air has never been clean and yet in my lifetime how has the lock down changed the habitat lets take a closer. In march crowded mumbai became a ghost city that it does it 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 corporate crisis has exposed some surprising findings. Now it is quite clear when there was there was no transport on the rule and industry 1st and are very pollution was still moderate so this tell us that. There is a significant source of natural pollution natural dust pollution which is impacting that he said so if it came that we can meet the do it to air quality guideline any one of the standards by just looking at regular pollution and Industrial Estate behavior has had a lot on our you know Natural Regeneration in forest decent so i dont want to ration Water Conservation actually to improve any or all of. 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 up in india waiting for public transport are just to be given packets of food. But our job situation is really bad in just total any employment district is about 400000000. 00 people and the data that is coming out is that about 200. 00 people are unemployed more so than some unemployment is and are the. People who are suddenly the Service Sector whether in just draw in malls or cinema halls on transport they are was. Proved environmentalists are calling for major changes in current social and Environmental Policies but the cracks have been exposed by coronavirus. They are wanting 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 it really is the rule by a. D. s as much as possible and the easiest possible means available is exploitation of Climate Change is going to hit just very very hard to go to get you started. Missions and. Climate and soul will. Respect the water and biodiversity so the business as usual is noble an option for us people who are the green economy. Gender bhushan predicts that the Indian Economy will go into the session for a long time poster called 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 abused 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 pandemic might not be the best idea so what is a safe way to get through the city under the current social distancing rules. More and more palin isnt 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 road is out of the gods due to whether the engine is too much of it now which i agree is more safe in my opinion there is so much room for my bike now both of it ought to be like this everywhere for cyclists and. These provisional bike lanes will be in place for at least a couple of months according to fix my scrape he had of roads and green spaces and balanced preacher time points but district. Wasnt enough to open are 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. 5 metres between them on apart from the thing 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 but 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 the new bike lanes used to be Parking Spaces a change that isnt making everyone happy will do where will my customers park know they come here. By myself parked in the back but we only have 4 or 5 spaces there. But its chaos. But this is what biking generally looks like imbalance. Im sure high nation is part of the changing cities and initiative which is campaigning for new traffic policies. Ok this is what you mean right yeah thats exactly what i mean that happens a lot in the land and its really dangerous because you have to drive into the car traffic right on top of the bike ok during the 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 by competent stream friendly. I imagine all the time howard would be was less cars like here all the cars parked could be just. You could plant flowers so put the chairs off the cafe. There could be a playground for everything believe it might sound like blue sky thinking but the pandemic is resulting in improvements for cyclists in other german cities under around the world bank but of past milan mexico city bogota a numerous other cities have also introduced short term street closures and temporary bike lanes. In. We might be temporarily 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 nature all harming the involvement with god and dioxide emissions what true thoughts can now take you to feel a storm as destinations historic museums and even interview local people you would really get to meet otherwise. Travelling has become impossible since the 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 back. 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 the countries for free. Oh you can just go along the great wall of china oh. Explore. Take in the wonder of. The word check out. Which of blossoming in all degrees right now. You can virtually visit National Parks across the world. From california. To austria. You can look at over 2500 Museums Trust to go from culch. And you can even take your marks from little. To big Tourism Sector no longer. Welcome to visit the lab for work we will have the opportunity to connect to one another. This week its. My home here is my link. You know partly what. Are you thinking about that it was a classic and what you saw. Scholar or painful disease or. Maybe be. Your practically searing our love for grease 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 having the feeling but having greece its not like you know like i say hes come. Home for campaign 0 the extraordinary period that we were all were going through. Went one step further and introduced personal life and then experiences in early april. I think. I should see. Bill comes across the world offering workshops and life. Magic. Thats a remake of a tale. Where. Foreign culture cooking the traditional moroccan young. Oh well you know the class was an experience i had i had video quality and cost and to 15. 00 u. S. Dollars. Some experts believe the trend he did to travel and connect may continue even runs cleaner restrictions to the toilet. Or. Its expected the tourism will turn more local and digital in the future which would further put deviation in the stream but could also decrease Carbon Emissions and have a positive impact on the. Watch will travel at least till we have good haptic support meanwhile t v p s the expedience of sensing the p is for what it actually is so many people ive spoken to cotton p. Bought into their homes gone we need to get back into nature in mumbai a unique walk for tourists which puts you in touch with how habitats developed around the city 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 arben 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. That translates as go slow it invites city dwellers 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. One of things. Heady days walks every day and we dont see other side of mumbai thats i dont know me is beautiful if you see this either side of me the ground. I got her sight is very vibrant and this woman has a bigger. I mean. This is the most personal to your face most of my life decides. 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 wily 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 eyes house is an embodiment of their philosophy a decades old star mind mound is safely in close. 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 pictures 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. And. The Forest Department believes that we are outsiders and they want to relocate us the 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. Today members of the worldly community who work at the sanctuary as caretakers gods and gardeners they have always looked after their forest and lived. Off its fruits and fish. For a City Developer these scenes may seem unreal even though this part does or communities have been living in their backyard. One of them for mention in the morning it sounded hitting like you mentioned you never knew this part i like after party or as he came from a probably that you know is this part i know its already started me like even i didnt know about something they did on sunday on the National Guard has been your 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 people here its going to be 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 an environment where people learn how the community is vented to the 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 little 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 by 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 might look at the trees lawns 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 people meet at urban parks like this to play sports go jogging things like that these are the benefits people get from city parks. That turns the organs 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 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 tile. These services are not taken into account politically or economically. For instance twice as much c o 2 as all forests put together but they are drained and destroyed for farming or construction. There is also a clear monetary cost that is we can very clearly calculate the value of a wetland for storing carbon and for other services this leads to conservation programs private individuals can buy tracts of drained wetland and try to rehydrate them mangroves are another valuable resource they will impose in full Coastal Protection and biodiversity the losses caused by mangrove destruction by 2050 will amount to more than 1800000000. 00 euros in value for the a c. On reaching. The mangroves are coastal forests that off 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 a function whether it serves as a protector off we produce and the impacts on only 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 of 21000000. 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. One infallible 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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