How has the current situation helped the planet?

How has the current situation helped the planet?

Coronavirus is a serious human health and safety problem, but as people, businesses, and governments are changing their daily behaviors and patterns to contain (or avoid) the virus, there have also been environmental effects that are being unexpectedly beneficial.

The braking to which the industries of giants such as China have been forced as a result of the pandemic, the reduction in the number and frequency of flights between many destinations around the world, or the suspension of large concentrations and sporting, social events and cultural, as well as the precautions to which the citizens are subjecting themselves in their particular movements, is bringing as a consequence a clear drop in the level of emissions of polluting gases.

Likewise, the temporary ban on wildlife trade imposed by China to combat the coronavirus has also given some species of threatened animals a break, since this country, by tradition, uses species considered exotic both for its cuisine and for its use. in traditional medicine.