COVID-19 is healing the Earth

I would like to preface this by saying that COVID-19 is very serious, and I personally hope that you and your family are healthy and staying inside. With that in mind, it is very interesting to see how the Earth is actually beginning to HEAL due to people staying inside. With the imminent threat of Climate Change, humans need to do everything we can to reduce our carbon footprint, and it appears COVID-19 is forcing the world to do so.

Although it will be unlikely that these positive impacts of people reducing their environmental disturbance will cause any long term change, we challenge you to find different ways to find transportation after the COVID-19 pandemic concludes.

Here is another example of how reduced transportation has helped the environment. In Venice, Italy, the canals are normally cloudy due to boats crowding and disturbing the water and seabed. However, as you can see in this image from nypost, the lack of disturbance

Although it will be unlikely that these positive impacts of people reducing their environmental disturbance will cause any long term change, we challenge you to find different ways to find transportation after the COVID-19 pandemic concludes.

Ryan Gelston

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