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 to me empty during this period i've been lucky to have access to groceries medicines the internet and other dissensions 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 isn't life changing event impacting every system and process on our planet and there's no single visual can summarize this for the history books millions have been left with no proper income on the one hand on the other has never been clean and yet in my lifetime how has

the lock down changed the habitat let's take a closer. 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 despite when there was there was no transport on the rule any dusty's or stand

up or dairy pollution was still moderate so this tell us that there is a significant source of natural pollution natural dust pollution which is impacting the exit so if it came that we can meet the way to air quality guidelines our air quality standards by just looking at regular pollution and industrial estate given how to a lot on our you know natural regeneration in forestation so i want to reach and water conservation actually to improve. 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

and just to be given packets of food. by job situation is really bad in just total any employment district is about 400000000 people and the data that is coming out is that about 200 people are unemployed that more so than some unemployment isn't on the. people who are suddenly in the service sector whether invest all malls or cinema halls on transports that they are worst hit. group environmentalists are calling for major changes in current social and environmental policies but the cracks have been exposed by current. virus. they are warning against using methods that countries have adopted in the past to kickstart economies. what governments do after pandemic is to you know all in the economy and it really is the rule by any means as much as

possible and the easiest possible means available is exploitation granted jane is going to hear just very very hard to. start emissions and. climate and so will. respect the water environment so the business as usual is no more an option for us . who wants a green economy. gender bhushan predicts that the indian economy will go into the session for a long time poster called the 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 lockdown is the difficulty in getting it out especially with public transport being shot or abused more and more people in many parts of

the world are turning to cycling as a reliable or turn it if 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 on my bikes 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 the cyclists need more space on the roads. with no money in gold to ride it out of the god given very dangerous to the care of it now which i agree is more safe in my opinion there's so much room for my

bike now most of it ought to be like this everywhere for cyclists and. these provisional bike lanes will be in place for at least a couple of months according to fail excise brake head of roads and green spaces and balance reacher time points by district. wasn't enough to i don't like these are the old road markings you can see that the cycle paths used to be very narrow and you can imagine that if a cyclist overtake someone who cycling slowly there won't be 1.5 metres between them on apart from the thing so wider cycling paths are crucial right out. of the water storm. safety activists are calling them pop up bike lanes and looking at social media you can see that popping up all over the world like in past except 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 will do where will my customers park now they come here. to buy myself a 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 him balance. until finally he 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 of buildings and it's really dangerous because you have to drive into the car traffic to drive around because of the bike. during the coronavirus restrictions car 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 bike competent stream friendly. i imagine all the time howard would be was less cost like all the 2 cars parked could be just. he could plant flowers put the chairs off the cafe. there could be a playground for everything moving. 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 a past milan mexico city bogota or a numerous other cities have also introduced short term street closures and

temporary by claims. in. we might be temporary ground it for many more weeks or even months to come but thanks to the internet we can call this big beautiful world. from pretty much anywhere without destroying nature all harming the involvement with goblin dioxide emissions what your thoughts can take you to feel a storm is destinations historic museums and even interview local people you would really get to meet otherwise. travelling has become impossible since to world has been grappled with the novel coronavirus. many countries across the world have closed their borders and haven't closed travel restrictions to curb the spread of the deadly back. 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 their countries for free. oh you can go along the great one china oh. explore. take in the wonder of. the word check out holland. blossoming in all the right. you can virtually visit national parks across the world. from california.

to austria. you can look at over 2500 museums crusted go from culch. and you can even take your lumps from the little. victories i'm so no longer. welcome to visit from the platform where we will have the opportunity to connect with one another. to speak. my home here is my least. you know partly what. you think unfortunately of classes and what you saw.

or painters you saw on. the beach. beer practically searing our love for grease sowing things that we know about our friends are wrong we were lovers well like food like music like wine just people you know how we how being good feeling but having grief it's not like you know like i say he's complaining i call me hold back the extraordinary period that we were all were going through. went one step further and introduced personal life and then experiences in early april. i kind of. see.

no cuts across the world offerings workshops a light. touch is healing magic tricks. a korean a country to. bring. foreign culture cooking a traditional moroccan young. to the reader oh well during the class an experience i had i had video quality and cost and $15.00 u.s. dollars. some experts believe the trend you did to travel and connections may continue even the ones who are not as strict as have been toilet. we are going.

to hold. it's expected the tourism will turn more local and digital in the future which would further the deviation of the street but could also decrease carbon emissions and have a positive impact on the. watch will travel at least till we have good haptic support meanwhile t v p s the expedience of sensing the p is for what it actually is so many people i've spoken to quite impede bone to their homes we need to get back into nature in mumbai a unique walk for tourists woods puts you in touch with how habitats developed around the city 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 mumbai 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 pace of their daily lives reflect can reconnect with the original line and the city was built on. one way on and so then off and they show mumbai in their glamorous. run of things.

heady days walks every day of mumbai and we don't see either side of mumbai that's i don't know me is beautiful if you see this or that item in the grand isle that is the best there are better site is very vibrant and this river has a bigger. i mean. this is the most festive to your face most of the sides. to this walk is called the dock 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 woolly 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 and indeed by his house is an embodiment of their philosophy a decades old star mined mound is safely in close. 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 it was. another member of the community is 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. earnings through these books. 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 out if they relocate us to an apartment complex . how will the way we're used to where we are chickens it will be a huge problem. people can do with the forest. you know. today members of the worldly community who 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 developer these scenes may seem unreal even though these partners or communities have been living in their backyard. for mention in the morning it's somebody helping like you mentioned you never knew this part i like after party or think you know probably that you know is this part i know it's already started really even i don't know about something like this and under any national park 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 warning people here. this is called the guard plant if you chop a bit of this grind it and drink its water every day if it is safe to help with fever and controlling diabetes.

we don't try to preach about this and then people when you come to this. part of for example you realize that there is so much of interaction between men and women there were people and how the community has been the land and then women 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 and. and similarly in other experiences these are the kind of things that are little stories and no amount of preaching that. 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 do get the chance to step outside into a leecher many of us might look at these clowns animals and the ocean and call them priceless it may not be so in the literal sense economists are trying to stagnate not because they want to sell it but because they want to see. what is a tree. city trees help to lower temperatures on hot summer days people meet at urban parks like this to play sports go jogging things like that these are the benefits people get from city parks. than 10 seconds is a professor of environmental economics he calculates the economic value of

ecosystem services. when put 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 the 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 recreational recuperate and we have a 4th category nature's supportive services board like the soil processes that make the ground for tile. these services are not taken into account politically or economically wetlands for instance twice as much c o 2 as all forests put together but they are drained and destroyed for farming construction. 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 full 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 pro 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 a function whether it serves as a protector. 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 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 this c o $2.00 emissions is that enough. running for how 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 up a 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 week until that nice to see if i'm taking good care of yourself and your loved ones go back. to the.

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