Update from The House of Plague, Day 51 (Environment)

[elisi]

From this evening's walk. We are extremely lucky to live right next door to a nature reserve, and (thanks to going for a great many more walks than usual) we are actually discovering new places, after having lived here for... 15 years? 16? Anyway, it seemed fitting since I thought I'd throw links about the environment at you today. :)

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The Guardian: Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world’s top scientists
Exclusive: only one species is responsible for coronavirus – humans – say world’s leading wildlife experts

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The Guardian: Coronavirus detected on particles of air pollution
Exclusive: Scientists examine whether this route enables infections at longer distances

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The Guardian: Green energy could drive Covid-19 recovery with $100tn boost
Speeding up investment could deliver huge gains to global GDP by 2050 while tackling climate emergency, says report

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BBC: Coronavirus: UK warned to avoid climate change crisis

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BBC: Climate change: Could the coronavirus crisis spur a green recovery?

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Good topic!

As it happens Mike and I are currently watching the Netflix series Our Planet. I really like the way it frames things in terms of connections, how one change leads to another. We are only on the second episode but that section on all the walruses falling to their deaths :( Who would have ever predicted that to happen?

[elisi]

Good topic!
:) The way I am doing this is that I collect links. And then I tend to take a look at what I have and see if there's any kind of group that I can use. Be it memes or homeschooling or politicians or whatever. Sometimes it's just random, but mostly I like to group things together. And since I had a nice collection of environment articles (the last two from today!) it seemed a good choice. Plus, lovely picture. :)

We are only on the second episode but that section on all the walruses falling to their deaths :( Who would have ever predicted that to happen?
:( I am loath to ask.

[yourlibrarian]

At least it's a bright spot right now.

And the events may not be as directly connected as the documentary suggested but the problem is increasing.

[elisi]

Late reply is late... Thank you for the link. :(

[juliet]

Pleased to see London (in the form of TfL and the GLA) doing a big push to increase cycling/walking space -- temporary for now but "will consider making permanent". It looks a bit like a lot of the long-term plans are being brought forward in a hurry, with the aim of a) taking pressure off public transport (which cannot run at more than ~20% of capacity tops with social distancing), b) avoiding people driving instead (pollution disaster, also no road space so not actually possible), c) attempting to retain at least some of the air-quality-bonus from the current situation. I gather other cities are doing the same.

[elisi]

Pleased to see London (in the form of TfL and the GLA) doing a big push to increase cycling/walking space -- temporary for now but "will consider making permanent".
What a difference it'd make! Here's to hoping for a cleaner future. <3

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

That place looks lovely <3

[elisi]

'Bout 5 - 10 minutes walk away :)

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous picture - and area!

Stacey

[elisi]

It's almost impossible to take bad pictures of nature - we're very blessed.

[sea_thoughts]

“The health of people is intimately connected to the health of wildlife, the health of livestock and the health of the environment. It’s actually one health”

You'd think we would know this by now. *sigh*

“[The pandemic] is not nature’s revenge; we did it to ourselves. It is the consequence of our persistent and excessive intrusion in nature and the vast illegal wildlife trade, and in particular the wildlife markets, the wet markets, of south Asia and bush meat markets of Africa”

Welp.

[elisi]

You'd think we would know this by now. *sigh*
Alas, people prefer money... *headdesk*