have you noticed what happens to the air?

[Barnabe]

We all mistakenly suggested that one of the benefits of a pandemic is improved environmental conditions and air purification. But look, everything returns again, and it is naive to think that people after quarantine cancellation will be more careful with natural resources. China very quickly returned to its old indicators.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-china-lockdown-over-air-pollution-already-spiking-industry-dirty-economic-rebound/#

I really hope that this pandemic showed that people can work from home and be as productive as if they were in the office.
Even if only 5% of the population begins to work at home in a regular basis, it can be a great improvement not only in pollution (less people using cars to go to work) but also in comfort (no need to waste several hours commuting / less traffic for other people going to work). In the long term, we might even see a decrease of rent in the city centers (less offices required for companies).

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[lovesmayfamilis]

We all mistakenly suggested that one of the benefits of a pandemic is improved environmental conditions and air purification. But look, everything returns again, and it is naive to think that people after quarantine cancellation will be more careful with natural resources. China very quickly returned to its old indicators.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-china-lockdown-over-air-pollution-already-spiking-industry-dirty-economic-rebound/#

I really hope that this pandemic showed that people can work from home and be as productive as if they were in the office.
Even if only 5% of the population begins to work at home in a regular basis, it can be a great improvement not only in pollution (less people using cars to go to work) but also in comfort (no need to waste several hours commuting / less traffic for other people going to work). In the long term, we might even see a decrease of rent in the city centers (less offices required for companies).

Unfortunately, not all work can be done remotely. Therefore, there will still be many professions that will have to use transport. For example, how can you do car repairs remotely? To produce any products remotely? In fact, only those who are connected in the IT-sphere can do remote work. And this is a very small number of employed people. Therefore, the environment has been polluted and will continue to be polluted until some global rules for environmental protection are introduced.

[BADecker]

From the simplest thing, choose a bicycle instead of a car, and limit travel by transport, if possible, or choose electric cars. There are not many ways to reduce emissions. More questions to factories and power plants of course.

I would totally agree, it is way better to use bicycle rather than a public transport or a car if it is in ability.

I disagree. Choose a car rather than a bicycle. I mean, nobody chooses a bicycle... percentage-wise, it's almost nobody. So, if you choose a bicycle, you have to breathe harder to pedal. The result is that you take in more smog into your lungs. Then you die from smog poisoning faster.

but if you choose a car over a bicycle then the air will be more polluted, and you breathe that air so you will die anyways

I'm not worrying about more smog. I'm worried about somebody lighting up a cigarette, and igniting the whole, smog-filled atmosphere.

[Eugenar]

It happens because they are pandemic lessen the pollution, here are many companies and factories that were temporarily closed and it stops the air pollution, the pandemic also stops the air pollution produced by the vehicles. There are many people who now use bike than the public vehicles because of being afraid of the virus and using bicycle will help us to clean the pollution.

[Barnabe]

We all mistakenly suggested that one of the benefits of a pandemic is improved environmental conditions and air purification. But look, everything returns again, and it is naive to think that people after quarantine cancellation will be more careful with natural resources. China very quickly returned to its old indicators.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-china-lockdown-over-air-pollution-already-spiking-industry-dirty-economic-rebound/#

I really hope that this pandemic showed that people can work from home and be as productive as if they were in the office.
Even if only 5% of the population begins to work at home in a regular basis, it can be a great improvement not only in pollution (less people using cars to go to work) but also in comfort (no need to waste several hours commuting / less traffic for other people going to work). In the long term, we might even see a decrease of rent in the city centers (less offices required for companies).

Unfortunately, not all work can be done remotely. Therefore, there will still be many professions that will have to use transport. For example, how can you do car repairs remotely? To produce any products remotely? In fact, only those who are connected in the IT-sphere can do remote work. And this is a very small number of employed people. Therefore, the environment has been polluted and will continue to be polluted until some global rules for environmental protection are introduced.

I know a lot (most?) jobs cannot be done remotely. But it would be great if the ones that can work from home begin to do so in a regular basis. IMO there is a lot to win and very little to lose for the community as a whole.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I know a lot (most?) jobs cannot be done remotely. But it would be great if the ones that can work from home begin to do so in a regular basis. IMO there is a lot to win and very little to lose for the community as a whole.

Perhaps the convenience of remote work is right for you. I also have to do my job at home, and I don't like that at all. For me, there is no definite time limit for when I could work and when to rest. Work calls can come at very late hours, which creates a lot of inconveniences. The same goes for the family. Children constantly distract me, I have to combine housework and my direct work. Thus, the performance of the work becomes not entirely high quality.

[akram143]

From the simplest thing, choose a bicycle instead of a car, and limit travel by transport, if possible, or choose electric cars. There are not many ways to reduce emissions. More questions to factories and power plants of course.

I would totally agree, it is way better to use bicycle rather than a public transport or a car if it is in ability.

I disagree. Choose a car rather than a bicycle. I mean, nobody chooses a bicycle... percentage-wise, it's almost nobody. So, if you choose a bicycle, you have to breathe harder to pedal. The result is that you take in more smog into your lungs. Then you die from smog poisoning faster.

but if you choose a car over a bicycle then the air will be more polluted, and you breathe that air so you will die anyways

Engines are more refined nowadays so the gas emissions which pollute the air get controlled in a huge percentage.

By the way we are moving to next generation cars which are electric and doesn't harm the air anymore so why we need bicycle when we have Tesla supercars.

Yabut. It's government regulation of emissions that are causing higher emissions. If there were no government regulation, the car companies would bow to demands of the people. Why would they bow to the people? Competition. Sales. The people would only want cars that get rid of smog. So, the company that made the most smog-less car would get the most sales.

How are gov regs stopping this? Gov regs aren't clean enough. But they stop the car companies from going ahead and cleaning up their cars more, because the companies are required to use gov regs which are bad. So, gov is causing more pollution.

Governments changing the regulations for emission from the vehicles every year so they are bit slow but at some point they also approve the electrical car project when there is no oil to mine and no more tax from selling fuel so they will put huge taxes for the electricity later and will suck the people's money.

[CarnagexD]

As I have said many times before, in order to save the planet and humanity, we must now give up using burnt minerals in favor of solar and wind energy. And the sooner we do that, the more generations can live on this planet.

The only thing that we need is to advertise this kind of contents, on how can we make our planet healthier and livelier again.

Most of the time, we lack of support from those environmental organizations and we are abusing our resources that's why when natural calamity comes, we are suffering the worse. We should engage to those organizations that focuses on conserving energies and maintaining the nature and the planet. It is not that hard to contribute just by a simple picking of litters and putting it into the trash cans. By that, we can somehow reduce all of the pollution, in the air, water, and land.

[Naida_BR]

Air pollution has caused a lot of environmental problems - from fires to forests to ice meltdowns.
The best way to reduce this catastrophe is to change our way of living. Do not get your car to go to work - get your bike. This is one of the activities that is the simplest we can do with the bigger impact on the air pollution.

[Salauddin1994]

Diseases, germs, dust and sand usually cause a lot of things to happen to the air. Which invades our lungs and takes on deadly forms like viruses. And also emits gas in carbon dioxide which helps to pollute the environment. Factory wastes mix with the air and upset the balance of the environment. Also, the black smoke emitted from the car mixes with the air and affects the health of the people, so using a bicycle instead of a car will protect them from these.

[SacriFries11]

Air pollution has caused a lot of environmental problems - from fires to forests to ice meltdowns.
The best way to reduce this catastrophe is to change our way of living. Do not get your car to go to work - get your bike. This is one of the activities that is the simplest we can do with the bigger impact on the air pollution.

There have been reported that due to lockdown the pollution in the air have been reduced because of the public vehicles not able to use for the safety of the commuters. These bring more significant the fact that earth can live without us and they will claim what is for them if humans not able to do nothing. Many big companies and even small business are switching to renewable energy with provide them cleaner energy supply. Government already supporting the use of renewable energies in our area where the use of net metering in solar power to be able to bring the small pv system back to the main grid and pay them how much energy they produced. We need to push this kind of energy to reduce the pollution in the air cause by using diesel power plant.

[Vilagra]

In my country aggressive pollution is still throwm out into the air from chemical plants which don't even consider mounting filtering systems...
The only thing I see that situation with air polution is getting worse.