even beethoven's pastoral symphony is the foundation. of an international art project. composing their understanding of nature. to mark the 250000 of verse 3 of the composers birth sharon program and by her you know he's good. beethoven world wide pastoral project starts to froth on t.w. . 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 have been drilling into during this period i've been lucky to have access to

groups whose 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 in 202019 isn't life changing event impacting every system and process on our planet and there's no single visual that 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 cleaner during my lifetime how has the lock down changed the habitat let's take a close. in march crowded mumbai became a ghost city that it does a didn't could never have even dreamed of. india underwent one of the most rigorous

lockdowns 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 there was there was no chance call on the rule industrialists and our very 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 do it to air quality guideline we're

going to be stronger by just looking at regular pollution industrial estate we're going to have a lot on our you know natural regeneration involved so i don't want to ration water conservation actually to improve an example 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 of in india waiting for public transport are just to be given back it's a food. but our job situation is really bad in just volatile any employment district is about 400000000 people and the details are just coming out is that about 200 people are unemployed

that also this unemployment is an ongoing. people who are suddenly in the service sector whether invest all malls or cinema halls on task force that they are was a. group 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 you know all in the economy and increase the drop by 80 s. as much as possible and the easiest possible means available is exploitation of collateral damage and it's going to hit us very very hard to go to the site. missions and. climate and soul will. respect water and biodiversity so the business as usual is noble an option for us. to our green

economy. gender bhushan predicts that the indian economy will go into the session for a long time poster call 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 lock down 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 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 groups. more and more berliners are getting on 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 to ride it out of the good weather event it is to have 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 are for cyclists and. these provisional bike lanes will be in place for at least a couple of months according to fake spice craik head of roads and green spaces in berlin screecher time points but district. has eaten off the 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 it was a cyclist overtake someone who cycling slowly there won't be $1.00 metres between them on apart from 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 they're popping up all over the world like in past 60 in the philippines. in france near paris. in brussels belgium. in the u.s. state of new york. london 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 we'll you know where will my customers park now they come here. by myself parked in the back but we only have 4 or 5 spaces there. it's chaos. but this is what biking generally looks like palin. and she 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 in balance and it's really dangerous because you have to drive into the cab traffic right on top of the bike ok 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 country hopes the crisis might make

the streets more by competent stream friendly. i imagine all the time how it would be those less cost like all the cars parked could be just. you could plant flowers saw 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 and 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 claims. we might be temporary grounded for many more weeks or even months to come but thanks to the internet we can talk big beautiful world. from pretty much anywhere

without destroying nature all harming the involvement with god and dioxide emissions what your thoughts can now take you to fearless stories 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 by 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 present objects 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 stroll along the great wall of china oh. explode. take in the wonder of. your check out polished shoes which and blossoming in auditory rain. you can virtually visit national parks across the world. from california. to australia. you can look at over 2500 museums trust to go from culch.

ench you can even take your marks from the little. big tourism sector knowledge. that's come to visit from the back for work we will have the opportunity to connect with one another. looking . to speak. my home here's my lady. you know are you what. you think unfortunately i was of class and what you saw like scholar or paint always used. to be very. dear practically serving our love for greece sowing things that we know about our friends our own we were lucky as well like food like

music like wine just to people you know how we know how being the feeling but having greece it's not like you know like a saints come. home for campaign 0 the extraordinary period book that we were all were going through. went one step further and introduced personally as an experience in early april. a kind of i should. know close across the world offering workshops a line. such as healing agitates.

korean make up a trail. foreign culture cooking a traditional moroccan young. oh all the classes and experiences i had i had video holiday and cost and $50.00 u.s. dollars. some experts believe the trend you did to travel and connect may continue even once when i was tricked and have been told lifted. or. it's expected of tourism go turn more local and digital in the future which would further g.b.h. an industry that could also decrease carbon emissions and have

a positive impact on the. watch will travel at least till we have good haptic support middle tier t.p.s. the expedience of sensing the p. is for what it actually is so many people i've spoken to called in p. bound for their homes we need to get back into need to in mumbai a unique walk for tourists myths 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 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 residents started an organization called. 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. one of things. headed towards heritage of mumbai and we don't see other side of mumbai that's i don't ways beautiful if you see this or this item in the ground i was very interested i got outside it is very vibrant and this really has a very good day it. was the most festive to your face most of my live

decides. to this walk is called the 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 and indeed 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. we want to now demolish our homes we don't want

a trace of the indigenous people we didn't even have access to water i used to carry large pitchers to the river to fetch water every day was. another member of the community is the nation an artist whose family has lived in alberta for 7 generations. to a tribal art form he tells this story with natural objects and paint made from stilts by up gets a share in go hollow hollows earnings through these books. and . the forest department believes that we are outsiders and they want to relocate us 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 eat our chickens it will be here. huge problem. we can't 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. for a city develop these scenes to me seem unreal even though this part of us or communities have been living in their backyard. for mention in the morning if somebody had been like you mentioned you never knew of this part. after 30 years he came to know probably that you know was this part

i'm not nor is that really even i didn't know about something like this and under any rational thought 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 garvin plant if you chop a bit of this grind it and drink its water every day it is safe to help with fever and in 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 there were people learn how the community is going to land and then women and that in itself is

a lesson. probably through that experience that people 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 get the chance to step outside into nature many of us might look at the trees clowns birds animals and the ocean and call them priceless 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. then turned against is a professor of environmental economics he calculates the economic value of ecosystem services. put simply services that nature provides for humans are known as ecosystem services or 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's supportive services like the soil processes that make the ground for a tile. 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 for farming construction. there is also a clear monetary cost of 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 even 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. 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. 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 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. 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 environments real value into a totally new perspective. that's all be how for you to begin i hope you had many takers from today's show we'll see you again next week

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to get. 30 minutes on d w. l z a view of the well. where i come from but over that to get to cisco it's just like with chinese food that's not where i am it's always reminds me of home after decades of living in germany china's food is one of the things i miss the most but that taking a step back i see if they can get to a difference in knowledge. then of fluids 1st as an articulation that exists as a part of the wall haven't been ever mentioned in china that's why you cannot have a chinese if no one knowing if their foot is a picnic but if people have a right to another culture that is this is their job a job that of them how i see it i don't this is why i've left my job because i tried to do it except it is an hour

a day by name of the names you and i were added that you. continue to ignore what do they dream of at night leaving. as cleaners they see the face of horror. their job censoring for the social media industry. in manila there are thousands of so-called content monitors to point to they screw up terrifying images from online platforms. are richer jobs for starvation wage the strain is enormous. the cleaners social media's shadow industry start students on g.w. .

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