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Environmental/Climate impact from covid pandemic: the positives
and negatives
By: Masked Man Date: September 25, 2024, 12:13 am
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Just some of Covid's environmental/climate impact: positives and
negatives:
SUMMARY -Researchers from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
(XJTLU) recently published a comprehensive, systematic picture
of the pandemic’s impacts – both positive and negative – on
environmental pollution and carbon emissions on different
continents.
A team, led by Dr Pow Seng Yap from XJTLU’s Department of Civil
Engineering, analysed data from at least 25 countries published
in more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and publications that
focused on variations of environmental impacts on those
countries--Link here:
HTML https://www.xjtlu.edu.cn/en/news/2022/01/covids-environmental-impact-positives-and-negatives
The Masked Man's afterthought for what it's worth:
Just some of my own perspectives on the matter.. You know some
people complain about citywide lockdowns, travel restrictions
and strict safety measures.
I'm of a different mind. I like it! I say take advantage of it!
People must be out of their minds not to want to make it so they
can stay at home .. why would anybody in their right mind want
to travel while there's a new variant or disease in the making?
Who can handle the stress of visiting relatives during a
pandemic risking disease? Are strict safety measures that bad?
Is it so bad to wash our hands or wear masks for our elders and
for ourselves? My philosophy is to make it so I can stay at home
, work remotely..homeschool the kids... become more self
sufficient.. sit on couch more and watch tv more ..its the
perfect time to do so since in this day and age everybody owning
computers and being able to communicate so well and having
online abilities has never made it more possible. I just think
personally that its better to be like a chameleon and change
colors when necessary to survive and so I find it intriguing to
think maybe diseases like covid are meant to slow us down and
make us adopt different lifestyle than we might not have been
raised to pursue...
This phenomena on how the air or environment gets cleaner the
more people caught covid and slowed down their way of living
excites me. I can't help but believe we need more bicycles in
the world, more birds flying and less jumbo jets. I just like
the idea that governments or even people themselves might create
stimulus or encourage one another to adapt the workplace so
people can stay at home or work remotely from home. This
fascinates me because I feel the human race needs to stop
racing, change their behavior, and adopt new customs and ways of
living with less travel and less commuting so the planet doesn't
get destroyed by our machines mostly. I like quality of life not
quantity and I feel the world is spinning too fast and that
everybody needs to slow down!
Keep this to yourself,..lol.. between you and me, I know there's
a scientific explanation as to where covid originates and I
accept that but aside from this often I also entertain and
fantasize on a spiritual level that covid and diseases could be
here season to season from Mother Nature to protect her and save
the planet by forcing people to change their ways and behave
differently.
Those are just my inner thoughts and how I deal with thinking
about why on earth do horrible diseases even possibly exist on
earth..these diseases are terrifying to me to even think
about..its hard to believe such hell on earth can even exist and
what purpose these diseases like covid are even here for... I
am sure everybody handles issues in regards to covid, human
suffering and death of loved ones in their own special way so
Take my ideas as you wish, nevertheless there are no doubts
about this: that covid and a multitude of other diseases are
here for now slowing us down and challenging us.
Feel free to reply here and post other studies that involve how
the environment can become a better place because of the impact
covid and other diseases have on people's behavior.
Thank you,
The Masked Man!
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Re: Environmental/Climate impact from covid pandemic: the posit
ives and negatives
By: Steve Date: September 25, 2024, 6:57 pm
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It is important to remember that the ideal situation is with
efficiency of travel, not merely the absence of travel.
Efficiency is not relegated to one aspect of travel, such as
fuel efficiency or amount of materials moved. Efficiency must be
gauged in all aspects including the carbon footprint of how the
vehicle was created, the amount of pollution caused by the
vehicle during normal operation & the carbon footprint for
creating the energy needed for the vehicle to operate.
The Covid pandemic has forced society, at least for a brief
while, in imagining an otherwise unthinkable scenario in terms
of travel efficiency on a macro level. It demonstrated that
environmental benefits from reduced travel could be witnessed at
significant levels and in the short-term.
Should society desire it (and it should), we should take that
lesson and expand upon it to its reasonable conclusions.
Mass transit is an inescapable extension of the lesson learned
from the initial phase of the Covid pandemic. Reducing motorized
individual transportation, regardless of energy source, should
be a priority of all civilizations. Reduction is not
elimination; We must be pragmatic in our goals to be more
efficient.
An increase in non-motorized transportation (ie bicycles,
tricycles, and the like) is another desirable goal. It is
important to note that society needs to be attentive in how such
modes of transportation are constructed; Construction with
exotic materials inevitably creates a larger carbon footprint.
Our sources of energy should be varied. While it would be highly
desirable to eliminate coal, petroleum & natural gas, such an
objective is not feasible in the short term. What is more
pragmatic would be significant reductions of these types of
energy sources.
Nuclear energy must be part of our carbon footprint reduction
plan. Although politically undesirable, we must acknowledge that
modern nuclear power plants are far safer and efficient than
plants constructed in the 1970s and 1980s. Granted, nuclear
energy should not dominate our energy resource plan but we must
be willing to commit to it if we are serious in lowering our
carbon footprint. As much as solar & wind would benefit us, they
are still too inefficient to power our nation alone.
We must also address hydro-electric. This form of energy needs
to be reduced as our planet now has so many hydro-electric dams
that it has affected the spin of our planet through the
unnatural displacement of water. Hydro-electric power is not as
ecologically-friendly as once presumed and we must acknowledge
this fact.
Although I am hopeful that society will eventually arrive at
more efficient travel, it will likely not occur until more
calamities happen. The arc of our progress always tends to be
that society needs great crises before significant action of any
kind occurs.
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Re: Environmental/Climate impact from covid pandemic: the posit
ives and negatives
By: Masked Man Date: September 27, 2024, 12:57 am
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Alas, If only our Vehicles and travels were like the Amish and
old order Mennonites… If only only we travelled by horse buggy …
then we would be using our animal vehicles/horse waste as manure
for to spread on our garden. That would be efficient… such horse
drawn travels would contribute to putting tasty food on our
table. Then again, the flatulence of farm animals is also known
to be bad for the ozone layer.. lol
its kind of funny to think about carbon hoof prints versus
carbon tire prints but sometimes I really do wonder about people
reaching out to alternate ways of living…
..from time there do seem to those calamities occurring such as
when stores run out stock or when trade from other countries get
delayed.. instances of that has occurred during this pandemic…
if gasoline prices changed overnight it would force many people
to change many plans.. of course I am skeptical people would
adopt more frugal or self sufficient lifestyle or ways of life
unless there was a crisis.
That being said perhaps the pandemic has changed a lot more than
I see.. Many more People are buying more in bulk .. many towns
have dropped off the map in a short period of time… I never
would have dreamed California would be the way it is now ...
there’s a handful of cities which seem to be barren or full of
homeless.. I can’t help but think that the covid pandemic was
the last straw that broke the camel or rather the town’s back
that succumbed to desolation. It’s pretty scary to see these
ghost towns.
Anyway we are talking environment here so Ill try to stay
focused on that… .. I’m just dreaming here but I sort of
envision success for a quasi- off grid family that embraces some
of today’s technology while also using some old school ways of
living not much different than the old order mennonites or
pioneers used. I just feel a family that can home school their
kid, and take advantage of a garden and can somehow work
remotely from their home and take advantage of online computer(
I consider the computer to be like the Swiss Army knife of the
brain) might pull off surviving these modern times or I feel
families might best benefit from trying to build a somewhat self
sufficient lifestyle that combines today’s technology with some
of the old ways of life that require hand tools , gardens and
more stay at home domestic activities. All this is probably
easier said than done. Unfortunately what appears to be
happening to me is gulf between the rich and poor..
Sometimes I have listened to online stories from survivors of
the depression eras and the One thing that seemed to be the
redeeming quality or rather the one thing that seemed to help
someone in the depression era was if they simply had a skill or
talent or craft then they were safe because they could give
something to others and therefore trade with one another
locally. In other words if you had a skill you could trade with
others locally to survive. I guess there’s less of a carbon
footprint when people do things more locally.
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Re: Environmental/Climate impact from covid pandemic: the posit
ives and negatives
By: Masked Man Date: October 2, 2024, 12:46 pm
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Moon's Surface Cooled Down During Strict Covid-19 Lockdown:
Study | Gravitas | WION
HTML https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ldB4nN0vj4k
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