Environmental impact of the Corona Virus

Dunno if there'll be any lasting positives, but I saw online that there are actually fish in the clear waters of the canals of Venice!

The air is cleaner from less traffic. I read that the visible horizon has extended by something like 3 miles in Los Angeles. I've noticed more birds, and their squawking last night was so loud it woke me up. I'd say Mother Nature is enjoying a nice breath of fresh air,.

Kind of answers the question, what if we all just stopped polluting one day.

we are still polluting. just our mass transit and personal transit has fallen off a cliff.

which somewhat shows what a large percentage of that particular kind of pollution all of that plane and car travel was causing.

it's also beneficial that this did not happen in the middle of a particularly harsh winter, because then everyone would be at home running the heating in their poorly designed, badly insulated buildings with the crappy layouts and the negligible solar orientation.

I find it kind of ironic when what’s happening in Venice is hailed as an example as Nature restoring the damage to its beauty by human intervention (“Nature taking back Venice”), because Venice is about the only place on earth whose beauty was created entirely by humans. Against all odds, I’d add. It was nothing but a boggy lagoon before.

Nature and wild animals wouldn't mind if we all died and went away.

It will be interesting to see what levels drop in the next 2-3 months.

THEN will the anti-climate change fuckers finally get the evidence they need?

Overpopulation is destroying the planet. Remove humans from the equation, and the environment and the animals in it quickly return to what they were before human destruction.

The chump administration just announced the EPA will not be enforcing environmental laws because of umm coronovirus, which probably stays permanent as long as chump is there.

Throughout history, about every hundred million years or less, there had been mass extinctions due to climate change such as the Ice Age or global warming, famine, drought and disease.

If we don't stop worshipping the mighty dollar and care more about the environment, wild life and other animals, humans might become extinct. Mother Nature doesn't care about the destruction of humans in order to maintain the preservation of the planet, Earth.

We mean nothing to earth, she's survived billions of years. She'll be hear long after us. Global warming is our existential threat, not hers.

What did dinosaurs ever do to Mother Nature? Why did she have them become extinct?

R13, well that was Mr. Asteroid.

Fuck those pussy dinosaurs. WE'RE still here!

Don't hold your breath that climate deniers will see how much things improve during/immediately after this shutdown and think, "Oh, we were wrong about that!" No. They will double down and say that the Earth cleans itself up without any help from us. You can't expect people who deny science to be impressed with scientific evidence.

The best we can hope for is that a significant number of them also don't believe in hand washing and social distancing.