and so many different walks of life. some are. awfully trying to come straight from the heart of. the russian and intimate journey to death stars to maintain g.w. . in alabama. for the last many weeks like many parts of the world india has been under lockdown due to cool with 19 streets like this one once bustling with pedestrians vehicles and of course have been drilled into during this period i've been lucky to have

access to groceries medicines internet and other to centuries but millions of people across the country are struggling to survive every single day the pandemic has changed the world as we know it. coming to you from my neighborhood on the outskirts of mumbai for all of us and 2020 over 90 is a life changing event impacting every system and process on our planet and there is no single visual that can summarize this for the history books millions have been left with no profit income on the one hand on the other the air has never been cleaner during my lifetime how has the lock down changed the habitat let's stick close. in march crowded mumbai became a ghost city that it does it didn't could never have even dreamed of. india

underwent one of the most rigorous lock downs of the corporate crisis as 1300000000 people were placed under curfew with 4 hours notice. on the surface it seemed like nature in indian cities was catching its breath as roads were almost empty and industries shut down. however environmentalists say that this is only temporary and the corporate crisis has exposed some surprising findings. now it is quite clear when there was there was no transport on the rule and industries were stand up again evolution was still moderate so this tell us that. there is a significant source of natural pollution actual dust pollution which is impacting that he said so if they think that we can meet the way to air quality guidelines

one of the standards by just looking at regular pollution and industrial estate we'll have. a lot on our you know natural regeneration in forest decent so i don't want to ration water conservation actually to improve going to share all of. the lockdown has been devastating to the indian economy. especially hard hit internal migrants who work in cities and have not been able to return to their village homes. they were seen across other than india waiting for public transport are just to be given packets of food. but our job situation is really bad in just total any employment district is about 400000000 people and the video that is coming out is that about 100 people are unemployed that most of this unemployment is an ongoing. people who are suddenly in

the service sector whether invest all malls or cinema halls on transport that. was. proved environmentalists are calling for major changes in current social and environmental policies but the cracks have been exposed by coronavirus. they are warning against using methods that countries have adopted in the past to kickstart economies. what governments do after pandemic is to open the economy and increase the group by 80 s. as much as possible and the easiest possible means available is exploitation granted jane is going to hit us very very hard to go to the site. missions and. climate and saw. respect to water and by that so the business as usual is noble an option for us. who are green economy.

gender bhushan predicts that the indian economy will go into the session for a long time poster call that crisis. india must decide how it will emerge after lock down and how it can continue to grow economically while caring for its environment and all its citizens. now another impact of the lock down is the difficulty in getting it out especially with public transport being shot or reduced more and more people in many parts of the world are turning to cycling as a reliable alternative and governments like germany's are responding to this spike by opening up emergency bike lanes the question is can cycling become integrity of the transport systems. public transport during the coronavirus pandemic

might not be the best idea so what is a safe way to get through the city under the current social distancing rules. more and more palin isn't getting all my pikes and the city has reacted to this new trend by adding cycle lanes. usually takes years due to administrative procedures is now happening in days. because amid the pandemic cyclists need more space on the roads. the more you need all the bodies out of the drugs you do whether the engine is too much of it now which i agree is more safe in my opinion there's so much room for my bike now but the great ought to be like this everywhere for cyclists. these provisional bike lanes will be in place for at least a couple of months according to fail excise craik head of roads and green spaces and balance creature time points by district. as you know if you are going on these

are the old road markings you can see that the cycle path used to be very narrow and you can imagine that it was a cyclist overtake someone who cycling slowly there won't be 1.5 metres between them on apart from the things so wider cycling paths are crucial right out. of the water storm. surge safety activists are calling them pop up bike lanes and looking at social media you can see that they're hopping up all over the world but him past 6 city in the philippines. in france near paris. in brussels belgium. in the u.s. state of new york. and in albania they were built over night. in berlin the new bike

lanes used to be parking spaces a change that isn't making everyone happy going to the where will my customers park now they come here that. i myself park in the back but we only have 4 or 5 spaces there. but it's chaos. but this is what biking generally looks like palin. hydration is part of the changing cities and initiative which is campaigning for new traffic policies. ok this is what you mean right yeah that's exactly what i mean that happens a lot the length and it's really dangerous because you have to drive into the catastrophic right on top of the bike lane during the coronavirus restrictions because traffic was reduced by 30 percent and public transport recorded up to 80 percent fewer passengers only the number of cyclists went up and she hopes the

crisis might make the streets more by street unfriendly. i imagine all the time how it would be those less cars like all the cars parked could be just. you could plant flowers so put the chairs off the cafe. there could be a playground for everything lulu. it might sound like blue sky thinking but the pandemic is resulting in improvements for cyclists in other german cities under around the world bank but the past milan mexico city bogota a numerous other cities have also introduced short term street closures and temporary bike lanes. we might be temporary grounded for many more weeks or even months to come but thanks to the internet we can talk big beautiful we're. from pretty much anywhere

without destroying nature all harming the involvement with goblin dioxide emissions what your thoughts can take you to feel the storm is destinations historic museums and even interview local people you would really get to meet otherwise. travelling has become impossible since the world has been grappled by the novel coronavirus. many countries across the world have closed the borders and haven't closed travel restrictions to curb the spread of the deadly virus. over 2000000000 people around the world are currently under lockdown. and it's not just people refuge 2 thirds of the world's passenger jets have been grounded as well putting an unprecedented strain on the education and tourism industry. now tourism boards across the world are offering virtual tours of the countries for

free. oh you can go along the great wall of china oh. explore. take in the wonder of. the word check out holidays which of blossoming in a particular way right now. you can virtually visit national parks across the world . from california. to australia. you can look at over 2500 museums for us to go from the culch.

and you can even take a class from the little. victorian now launching. the outcomes of this from the platform where we will have the opportunity to connect with one another. to speak. my home here is marley. you know partly what. you think unfortunately it's the classes and what you saw like the scholar or painful disease or. the really be valid. beer practically searing our love for these sowing things that we know about

our friends our own we were lucky as well like food like music like lying to people you know how we having the feeling but having grief it's not like you know like i say he's come these i call him for campaign hold back the extraordinary period that we were all going through. went one step further and introduced a personalized online experience isn't really a problem. i think. i should. know close across the world offering workshops a line. such as healing magic.

as we make up a very good. foreign culture cooking a traditional moroccan young. oh well you know the class was an experience i had i have video quality and cost and $15.00 u.s. dollars. some experts give you the trend to do to travel and connect may continue even the ones who are now restrictions have been going lifted. we are going or. it's expected to tourism go turn more local and digital in the future which would further the deviation in the stream but it also decrease carbon emissions and have

a positive impact on the. watch will travel at least till we have good haptic support. the peace the expedience of sensing the peaceful what it actually is so many people i've spoken to called in p. bound to their homes we need to get back into need to in mumbai a unique walk for tourists woods puts you in touch with how habitats developed at all the cities is welcome on the other side. cities are often built by reclaiming land dredging soil and driving indigenous people out to make way for development and urban life as we know it. india's boston financial capital my is similar it was once only home to indigenous

communities like the coolie fisherman and morley tribe. to connect this bridge between the past and the present to of mumbai's current resident started an organization called go that translates as go slow it invites city duelist to ram down the face of their daily lives reflect and reconnect with the original land the city was built on. one way on and so then off and they show mumbai in very glamorous. run of things. heady days of ops heritage of mumbai and we don't see other side of mumbai that's item is beautiful if you see this or this item in the ground i was very interested either side is very vibrant and this remind us of the good days i mean most of the

things the most personal to your face most of it serves. to this walk is called the doc he saw a river walk it has degraded in recent years causing mumbai to become extremely vulnerable to flooding and water borne disease. but the warley community of no part out that has lived along these banks for generations has a different approach to the river and forest many aspects of their traditional ways of life remain intact until nice house is an embodiment of their philosophy a decades old star mind mound is safely enclosed within the protective boundary of her brick wall she has no means of income and it is the community around her participants on the heritage walk that supports her in a frightening trend the government has now categorized her community as illegal settlers. they want to now demolish our homes they don't want

a trace of the indigenous people we didn't even have access to water i used to carry large pictures to the river to fetch water every day was. another member of the community is danish an artist whose family has lived in alberta for 7 generations. to a tribal art form he tells their stories with natural objects and paint made from stones bought up gets a share in go hollow hollows earnings through these books. in . the forest department believes that we are outsiders and they want to relocate us the plan to build hotels for example but they don't know our culture and traditions the don't want to consider how we tribals leave more than 50 percent of us on the

traditional cooking stoves and work outdoors if they relocate us to an apartment complex where we lead. the way we are used to where we are chickens it will be here. huge problem. we can do with the forest why. did members of the world community work at the sanctuary as caretakers gods and gardeners they have always looked after their forest and lived off its fruits and fish. for a city dweller the scene psni seem unreal even though this part was or communities have been living in their backyard. one of them for mention in the morning if somebody had been like you mentioned you never knew of this barley after party and he came to know probably that you know was this part

i not only started really even i didn't know about something maybe on sunday army national guard has been your for your the biggest takeaway for me is the sheer interaction that i've had with the beautiful people here we live in in a cocoon we stay away from the very people we share a city with so i'm glad i interacted with the warring people here. this is called the darvill plant if you chop a bit of this grind it and drink its water every day it is safe to help with fever and controlling diabetes. we don't try to preach about. people when you come to this. part of our example you realize that there is so much of interaction between men and women who are people and how the community is going to land and their environment and that in itself is

a lesson and it's probably through that experience that people like testing the food or drinking the water or taking a dip in the river and similarly in other experiences these are the kind of things that are told only through stories and no amount of preaching will help. charges participants a 1000 rupees for each of their walks experiences that strive to break down walls between different communities living within a city while hoping to encourage a more inclusive and impacted seek coexistence. now when we don't get the chance to step outside into leecher many of us might look at the trees clowns birds animals and the ocean and call them crisis it may not be

so in the literal sense economists are trying to put a price tag on it not because they want to sell it but because they want to see. what is a tree. city trees help to lower temperatures on a hot summer day people meet at urban parks like this to play sports go jogging things like that these are the benefits people get from city parks in downtown see organs is a professor of environmental economics he calculates the economic value of ecosystem services. simply services that nature provides for humans are known as ecosystem services they are utilities nature supplies us with wood water food secondly it supplies regulatory services nature regulates the climate trees absorb c

o 2 from the atmosphere and beyond that we have cultural services places where people can engage in recreation or recuperate and we have a 4th category nature supportive services like the soil processes that make the ground for a tile well. these services are not taken into account politically or economically . for instance twice as much c o 2 as all forests put together but they are drained and destroyed full farming construction. become one of the. there is also a clear monetary cost that is we can very clearly calculate the value of a wetland for storing carbon and for other services this leads to conservation programs private individuals can buy tracts of drained wetland and try to rehydrate them. mangroves are another valuable resource they will put in for coastal

protection and biodiversity the losses caused by mangrove destruction by 2050 will amount to more than 1800000000 euros in value for the region. the mangroves are coastal forests that often grow into the water they've been largely destroyed in some countries up to 50 or 60 percent in indonesia for example in many cases restoring them is very expensive and laborious this shows that we often make very short term economic decisions but the long term effects are not given adequate consideration. every ecosystem has to function whether it serves as a protector or food and the impacts on regional they're also global marine ecosystems in particular. the earth's coral reefs make up perhaps only one percent of the ocean's surface but they are absolutely vital for the bio diversity of marine life values of coral reefs are especially high to $1000000.00 euros per

square kilometer about 25 percent of corals have already been destroyed by coral bleaching 'd and even if we were to achieve a 2 degree target this would hardly save the earth's carles they face the greatest threat. environmental destruction often has no cost for the perpetrators and even if companies in europe pay for $2.00 emissions is that enough. do we calculate the damage done by a ton of c o 2 for example should we only calculate the damage for germany if a ton of c o 2 is emitted should we also consider that the south sea islands are being inundated you see working out the social price of carbon is also an ethical question. environmental cost calculation can put the environment's real value into a totally new perspective. that's all be how for you to begin i hope you could maybe take abuse from today's show we'll see you again next

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