These days, people are discussing about pro-environmental and protective notions in their life all over the world. It seems this level of consideration should be navigated to a sustainable path. What do you think about it?
Totally agree to that, However sustaining sensitivity towards these issues after the pandemic remains to be seen...
Yes, It may be a good option for awareness building and behavioural change. But in such a sensitive time we should more focus on the prevention of this virus later we can think about other topics.
Hello Mojtaba and others; Like any other of the crises people have confronted, what we think about is immediacy and agency. "Am I affected and can I do something about it NOW." When those two conditions don't apply we don't act. We can do better. In the immediacy of the pandemic, I'd like to recommend a highly reliable source of weekly updates of the world's state of affairs. The analysis applies most directly to the USA but applies worldwide. Please read it! See the link below. Try to be safe, Jim Des Lauriers
https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
In my opinion, the development of the Koronavirus Covid-19 pandemic may trigger a global economic crisis, which will force companies to restructure production and transport logistics, e-logistics development, acceleration of e-commerce development, use of new internet technologies and Industry 4.0 in various branches of the economy, etc. The global economic crisis, which will be triggered by the development of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent similar crises in the future may increase people's awareness of the need to carry out the necessary pro-ecological reforms to slow down adverse climate change, i.e. to slow down the increasingly rapid global warming process. However, it will be a rather slow process, too slow.
I believe that in the 21st century humanity's biggest challenge will be solving problems that are a consequence of adverse climate change, rising average annual temperature at the Earth's surface, i.e. the progressing global warming process related to the growing greenhouse gas emissions. More and more climatology data indicate that the global warming process is progressing faster and faster. The result of this process will be droughts, melting glaciers, raising the surface of the oceans and oceans, decreasing the areas of arable and human fields. In addition, weather anomalies and climatic and natural disasters will appear more and more often in many places around the world. Forest fires will occur more and more often. Lack of clean water and fresh water will appear in many areas. In the next several to several dozen years, all pollinating insects may die, which will be the result of growing environmental pollution and the use of pesticides in arable fields. The result may be a significant decrease in the production of agricultural produce, including fruit, cereals and some vegetables. This can aggravate the problem of feeding the population.
Therefore, humanity should reduce greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible, develop energy based on renewable energy sources, electromobility, organic farming, sorting garbage, recycling, etc. It is necessary to implement the principles of sustainable ecological development as soon as possible in accordance with the green economy philosophy and ecological financing reforms from green finance sources. Time is short. It is not certain that humanity will completely reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. It is also not certain that if humanity succeeds, the global warming process will cease to deepen. However, implementing the principles of sustainable pro-ecological development is a necessity and the biggest challenge in the 21st century. However, most people do not yet notice the above-mentioned effects of the global warmin process, because for now these processes are proceeding relatively slowly and much slower, e.g. compared to the currently developing global economic crisis caused by the development of the coronavirus pandemic causing Covid-19 disease.
Climate change in the coming years will increasingly affect the economy. However, to date, these changes are slow and therefore have limited impact on the economy. Many scientific data support the thesis that the development of human civilization is mainly responsible for climate change. For example, the development of the current (mid-March 2020) coronavirus-induced pandemic is progressing much faster and the negative effects of this pandemic are more noticeable to people. Therefore, the economic effects caused by the development of the Coronavirus pandemic are already visible and very serious. Perhaps in 2020 there will be a recession in the global economy caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. climate change, however, is progressing very slowly. however, in the years to come, the effects of an increasingly faster global warming process may be more visible. The scale and frequency of future weather anomalies and drastic climate disasters can increase significantly. Then more and more frequent droughts, decreasing fresh water resources, decreasing production of agricultural products, more and more often occurring fires of forests and other areas etc. will have bigger and bigger economic effects. These will be mainly negative economic effects, rising prices of food, water and many other necessities. Costs will rise and people's standard of living will fall. These processes are currently very limited and unnoticeable by most people but in the coming years will be more noticeable and the economic effects will grow rapidly in the future, in the perspective of the next several or several dozen years.
People are more afraid of the Corona-virus (COVID-19) pandemic than the progressive climate change, including the increasingly rapid global warming process, because climate change is however much slower than the growing coronavirus pandemic. The effects of the development of the Koronavirus pandemic are already visible in a significant part of the world. Currently (mid-March 2020), the number of human infections is growing rapidly every day. Many people have already died of the Coronavirus. Serious economic effects are already visible, the stock market crash caused by the potential recession of the global economy. However, the global warming process is so slow that most people do not pay attention to very slow climate change. In contrast, drastic climate disasters occur only locally and in most countries very rarely, so most people learn about the effects of climate change from the media and not from the immediate environment and experience.
Therefore, I formulated the following research thesis:
The global economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 Coronavirus progresses much faster than the effects of the global warming process. Consequently, the effects of climate change are relatively slow and therefore still unnoticeable by many people. However, in the future in several dozen years it will be possible to simultaneously occur various crises caused by various factors, including climate, biological, civilization, social and other. It is necessary for humanity to undertake the necessary ecological reforms today to reduce the scale of the negative effects of subsequent economic and civilization crises that will appear in the future. Perhaps not as distant future than we currently think.
Best wishes.
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Dear Abhijit Mitra,
I fully agree with your opinion. I fully support.
Best wishes.
Dariusz Prokopowicz
In order to answer this question, it is necessary to answer the question – what role does the virus play in the planetary nature?
If a virus is an intracellular parasite that is created by nature to destroy a certain group of people, characterized by a certain intensity of the electric field of the body, and, accordingly, a person's lack of sensitivity to global crises, then it can only destroy these people and, thereby, help the planet on its own order.
If a virus is a program of a certain process, similar to a matrix or transport RNA, then, being present in a healthy person's cell, it can briefly absorb and thereby block certain electromagnetic radiation of cell membrane proteins. Ultimately, this will increase and adjust the sensitivity of people to global crises.
Choosing the answer option will change the perception of the purpose of viruses and, consequently, change the strategy for the prevention and treatment of viral diseases.
I think so because unfortunately we need to hit some sort of bottom before we wake up. This type of pandemic was predicted back in the 1970s but we ignored the science and lived in the illusion that eco-systems are infinite.
Colleagues, one drop of tap water contains about 8 million different viruses. Can you imagine how many of them there are in a glass of water? The planet tirelessly continues to create various RNA molecules . These molecules are found in the 200-meter thickness of the ocean floor. I think it is correct to develop a position for all viruses at once, and not try to give a special property to a single species of many thousands of types of viruses.
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The effect of stopping activities, in the World given us, without wanting, a live test of its positive environmental consecuences.
Quantified this can convince unbelievers to take better oriented joint actions.
COVID-19 crisis has triggered serious thinking by many on human survival vis a vis the survival of other life forms and the environment in general. The lockdown in many cities has silenced the roaring of machines in factories, blocked factory chimneys and smokestacks, has immobilized all polluters (pedestrian, domestic and industrial) and hence, part of the environment seems to be regaining breathe as humanity is suffering. There is also a window of creating awareness on how exposure to pollution/smoke, for instance, makes the situation worse for COVID-19 patients. It is an opportunity for the globe to rethink how human activities on the natural environment can be reduced without necessarily negatively impacting economies.
I Am puzzled at how in the last 4 centuries the world has experienced devastating pandemics occurring in the same pattern, in the same period every 100 years, killing hundreds of thousands. The bubonic plague of 1720 killed over a 100,000 with deadly ulcers/boils. The 1820 cholera struck the world killing another 100,000 or so persons. Then the mother of all pandemics (hoping COVID-19 will not reach that level), the 1920 Spanish influenza did infect half a billion people across the globe killing over 50 million of them.
I Am left with more questions than answers. Is this pattern really natural? Who is playing who some tricks? What is it that the world is not doing right and what is it that the world is doing wrong? What are the priorities and focus of world powers, governments, international organizations, UN? That is, considering the following potential priorities: economy, environment, politics and power, human life, development, education and research. Which one deserves more investment to save the rest? I have endless questions.
Dear Joyce, maybe a few answers can be obtained in these articles?
- Mokiy, V. S. & Lukyanova, T. A. (2019). Imperatives of Sustainable Development from the Perspective of Systems Transdisciplinary Approach. Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science, 10. https://doi.org/10.22545/2019/0127
- Mokiy, V.S. & Lukyanova T.A. (2019). The External and Internal Planet’s Limits to Growth: Transdisciplinary Rethinking. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Vol. 9, No. 9, September 2019, 134-144. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30845/ijhss.v9n9a16
I do believe after the COVID-10 pandemic is over, the people's sensitivity to global crises like climate change will increase certainly. It is time to raise voices against global climate change, global warming and so on. We have to do that to save our planet.
It will certainly increase people sensitivity for some time and we will be back to our own way of life. Every year we face such problems. These things are not new, just the history is repeating in several forms. We are failing to live in eco-friendly way.
Emergency budgets are not contemplated according to a
preliminary plan. despite the fact that we know many times
the cyclical phenomena of high rains, high probability of forest fires, long periods
of drought
There is certainly an opportunity for COVID to teach us some lessons about empathy and communitarianism rather than insularity and independence. These can be applied to climate change and other societal ills.
Si no se entiende, que el gran problema es, que medidas concretas y efectivas tenemos para controlar a los pacientes asintomáticos, el costo va a ser mucho mas alto del que debiera.
La publicidad diaria debe reforzar el criterio TODA PERSONA ES SOSPECHOSA, PUES EL 70-80% DE INFESTADOS CON CORONA VIRUS POSITIVO:
N O T I E N E S I N T O M A S
Respondiendo, nos quitaremos la soberbia por los acontecimientos, y debemos recordar que nuestra aldea es mas pequeña de lo que parece, a raíz de que nuestra población creció en los últimos 70 años (una generación) de 2,500 millones a 7,500millones.
Es querer usar la misma casa para 3 hijos, para una familia de 8 hijos.
I don't think so. These viruses will be coming after one another. We have damaged our planet's environment too much that it will take decades to normalize. Just imagine after this pandemic, Industries will start production again and cause increasing pollution level. It could be done if majority of the technology move towards sustainable renewable energy. But we are too far from these technologies. Only Environmentalists are worried about climate change, Industry owners, business man nothing to do with it.
Hi, everyone... i think:
What happens is that the world in general assumes reactive actions rather than preventive ones. The Covid-19 took us by surprise and at high speed. From all this issue we must learn that we must create a global preventive culture that will lay the foundations for a new culture against climate change. Behold, that we are experiencing a good number of reflections that should lead us to the birth of the capacities that will allow us to react effectively and coordinatedly to global calamities such as Climate Change. We must be ready to use this pandemic as an strategic example so that global leaders to break their harsh skepticism, and finally listen and act. In 1 year we will have the vaccine for Covid-19, but from climate change and its disastrous consequences we will not have any escape, nor a sure horizon, if we do not act now.
This pandemic virus has shown that majority can behave and hence pay more attention to the environment. People can breath pure air in various cities worldwide during this confinement.
How to control pollution in a village that 70 years ago had 2.5 billion inhabitants and now has 7,500?
Covid 19 is a time for recovery of our planet, in the same way when a diseased person who is tired and fed up of his life wants a break and wants some time to rest and wants to lessen the overload of disease ( here environmental pollution).
This phase can also be compared with a fasting person who wants to flush off all toxic substances from his blood and wants to renew his system.
No podemos seguir haciendo lo mismo, el modelo del consumo en discusión. Consumimos mas energía, en sus diversas formas en mas servicios ademas de mas cosas.....todo ello se traduce a producir mas gases de efecto invernadero,materiales no biodegradables muy contaminantes/peligrosos en muchos casos.
Con esta pandemia, podemos repensar nuestro vertiginoso camino en nuestra forma de vivir.
Its a dubious question. Let me elaborate the question first: will the covid-19 outbreak proof to be an opportunity or an obstacle in the post pandemic era? Simple answer is - yes, it can be an opportunity and economy will prove to be burden. In detail, although, there is a better social response to climate change expected as people now can visualize the human effect on climate; but as various government and non-government agencies are spending a lot of money on medical facilities to fight against coronavirus, the monetary resource is depleting. Only the way out to make the situation as an opportunity is to convincing non-governmental funding sources both individual and institutional to break away from fossil fuel driven economy and invest more in green technologies which will help in higher return if can be applied in large scale.
definitely. its no longer person to person but all people in any way possible. It was very nice if all community, stake holders and government have the same efforts.
Yes it can be an opportunity - ONLY if people realize how their massive consumption of energy, resources, materials and a throwaway lifestyle ( wasting food, planned obsolecense in electronics, clothes fashion) is partly responsible for added greenhouse gases, decreased forest cover, drained wetlands and pollution - all of which creates climate uncertainty, biodiversity loss and ecosystem alterations. Question is --- how will people realize this ? A decade ago there was a wonderful video on youtube titled " story of stuff". It had maybe several thousand views, while a video of Beyonce or Rihanna had several million. Now, people in very polluted cities worldwide are marvelling at the clean air, better visibility, more birds, dolphins coming back to urban bays from Mumbai to Lima. It would be neat if people realized that by using less, they could pollute less. But how?
Though the whole world is stopped for a while, when the pandemic over people change into normal status might be serious than before. Hence whole world must make a plan for sustainable development. Otherwise, we will have to face more critical situations. Nature makes everything for all human beings, but humans are overconsumeing everything. Loss of biodiversity creates climate uncertainty.
Climate change made many people suffer, but corona virus killed far more. Now many realize that you can't play with nature, it can hit back hard and you may not survive.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_the_COVID-19_pandemic_raise_awareness_of_climate_and_environmental_emergencies#view=5ea317bc553b6062e32a1f92
Yes, there is a connection and I understand that we can come out stronger of COVID-19, to face the already existing problem of climate change.
- There is already some evidence that can relate the appearance of the virus to the impacts of habitat destruction:
https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/coronavirus-outbreak-highlights-need-address-threats-ecosystems-and-wildlife
https://www.publico.es/sociedad/coronavirus-destruccion-ecosistemas-primer-paso-pandemia.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=web
- Facts around the world show that air and water pollution had a severe reduction in this period of the COVID-19 advance:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/16/asia/china-pollution-coronavirus-hnk-intl/index.html
Perhaps the human impact was the trigger for this process of apparent climatic self-regulation moment that the planet is going through?
Yes I think the Covid-19 can sensitize more of climate change crisis. This is particularly so for the aspect of GHG emissions, which has significant reduced with the measures that have been taken against this pandemic. In many countries, motor vehicle associated pollution has reduced due to lockdown. I have seen some posts of scenic features such as tall buildings and mountains that could not previously be seen as a result of smog. The point is the mitigation of climate change is in our hands based on the activities we engage in. As such, we must modify our lifestyles to retain the status quo.
Covid-19 has been the straw that breaks the camel's back for millions around the world, and possibly will impact other millions in the near future in the same way. Just imagine people who had already been impated to the extreme by wars, famine, diease, climate change, drought, rising temperatures, access to clean water and many other issues, having now to deal with Covid-19 also. these same people will obviously be the worst-equipped to fight it off too...
https://circlethemed.com/events/1st-online-debate-covid-19-and-climate-change-a-tale-of-two-crisis?utm_source=Sustainable+Tourism+newsletter&utm_campaign=ebdc9d0c4b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_07_12_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fb1c7a3127-ebdc9d0c4b-77958397
Yes it .. here is one of many research we have done about this issue specifically
Article Foresight of Coronavirus (COVID-19) Opportunities for a Better World
Yes, COVID-19 pandemic is a very good lesson to the world leaders and scientists. Probably they have got the message that they should do something more to save the world, to prevent climate change.
Hello all; Well, in the USA the reaction will be very distinctly mixed. Mr. Trump's administration will assuredly not get the message. They are doing what they can to prop up fossil fuel industries, degrade environmental protections and so forth. On the other hand, in today's paper it was announced that the University of California's investment trust fund has been divested of all fossil fuel industry investments. That is a symbol of major significance because the university is very conspicuous and the decision, only a few years ago, was considered to be irresponsible. Good for the university! So, we'll have to wait and see about lessons learned. Best regards, Jim Des Lauriers
People are more concerning about their surroundings now. There are evidences of the possible emergence of new virus, owing to climate change in future. Hence an increase in people sensitivity to the global crises is inevitable.
The virus makes everyone scared of death. With climate change some people have been threatened and suffered, but maybe their lives were spared. That makes them appreciative of nature and natural forces at work. Nature is beautiful, but if one does not appreciate its forces, nature can kill you.
Yes, of course.
Climate change is indirectly related to its origin and we should behave in that way to preserve our nature. We have to trade-off between industrialization and safety of natural resources.
COVID has caused a drastic change in env. Please see the attached publications in context to India
Yes, it is possible if the public awareness receives a message about the relationships between negative aspects of the development of civilization (environmental pollution, climate change, including the global warming process, which is increasing faster) and the growing scale of climate disasters, weather anomalies, natural disasters (drought in arable fields, forest fires, pest infestations affecting arable fields, etc.), epidemics caused by new types of viruses and other microorganisms, etc.
Best regards,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Due to COVID-19's lock down, peoples are experiencing a new world with a changed atmosphere and with less pollution. Measures taken by the Government during COVID-19 pandemic have drastically altered the energy demand around the world. Hence, emission of green house gases, an important factor of climate change, has been lowered. From such measures taken during the pandemic, obviously people should have learnt a lot of lessons.
The 'COVID- 19' Pandamic teaches lesson to entire world. Now they are understand that the importance and needs to take care of the social distancing.
For sure, It gave us the time to concentrate more on our way of treating environment and we understood that how it is important!
I agree too that the virus brought us close to the truth about damage to the environment. We previously knew of the damage, but we elected to ignore it in favour of travelling unlimited trips for no good reason. Now, we managed to warm up the oceans so much that we are getting a slap in the face with torrential rains, derecho winds, powerful tornadoes and hurricanes.
I personally believe SARS-CoV2 viral disease (COVID-19) might be an opportunity to increase the sensitivity of people to global crises like climate change, environmental pollution, biodiversity, safe drinking water supply, sanitation, food security, and so on.
COVID-19 should be considered a 'teachable moment' that should be leveraged to change behaviours for the betterment of the populace worldwide.
Yes we believe so and we working on establishing a paper on our part of this book
Book COVID-19 The Untapped Solutions
Totally agree to that, However sustaining sensitivity towards these issues after the pandemic remains to be seen...
Although some people learned from their mistakes others continue ignoring the effects of pollution in favour of economic activities. For this season, it is only education in the early years at school that will change the world for the better.
Everyone has seen Donald Trump has learned nothing in the last 4 years about how to prevent the virus and how to protect the Earth from pollution. He is still in favour of not wearing a mask (does no believe in science!) and does not believe in climate change. You also found out that almost half the people in the USA are just as ignorant as him. I attribute that to lack of education in the USA.
A common joke in Canada is how ignorant (the USA people) are when visiting here or when we visit the USA. Amazing things they tell you about the Earth as if they came from another planet!
The 'COVID- 19' Pandamic teaches lesson to entire world. Now they are understand that the importance and needs to take care of the social distancing. This is one and now the entire india has experienced that if we take care and maintains the physical distance, then definitely the Corona will controls. And now a days the this pandemic slowly declines, number of patients are decreasing in India.
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