aster than anticipated. a massive spring are supposed to prevent flooding but they only delay the inevitable. how will we live in the future. 66 metre rising sea levels starts to slip on d 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 driven 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 and 2020 over 90 is a life changing event impacting every system and process on our planet and there's no single vision that can summarize this for the history books millions have been left with no proper income on the one hand on the other and has never been cleaner during 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 or 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 there was there was no transport on the rule and industrial centers are very pollution was still moderate so this tell us that. there is a significant source of natural pollution natural dust pollution which is impacting their he said so if they think that we can meet the way to air quality guidelines i didn't want to respond by just looking at regular pollution and industrial estate

we'll have a lot on our you know natural regeneration involved so i don't want to ration water conservation actually to improve their quality. 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 a little money employment district is about 400000000 people and the video that is coming out is that about 200 people are unemployed that also this unemployment is an ongoing. people who are suddenly the service sector whether invest all malls or cinema halls on transports 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 rule by 80 s. as much as possible and the easiest possible means available is explosive climate change is going to hear just very very hearty the growth that you cite. missions and. climate and so will. respect water and by that so the business as usual is noble 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 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 and 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 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 cyclists need more space on the roads. the more you need to go on the road is out of the gods you do better than just with the coverage now which i agree is more safe in my opinion there's so much room for my bike now but i got a bit like this everywhere after cyclists are. these provisional bike lanes will be in place for at least a couple of months according to fake spice prayed he had of roads and green spaces and balanced preacher time points but district. as you know if you are going on 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 $1.00 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 but him posix city in the philippines. in fronts 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 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. it's chaos. but this is what biking generally looks like him but. i'm sure hind is part of the changing cities an initiative which is campaigning for a new traffic policy. ok this is what you mean right yeah that's exactly what i mean that happens a lot until then and it's really dangerous because you have to drive into the car 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 and she hopes the crisis might make the streets more by stream friendly. i imagine all the time how it would be was less cost like all the cars parked could be just. you 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 a numerous other cities have also introduced short term street closures and temporary bike lanes. in. we might be temporary grounded for many more weeks or even months to come but thanks to the internet we can top this big beautiful world. from pretty much anywhere without destroying all harming the involvement with god and dioxide emissions what your thoughts can now think you'll 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 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 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 the countries for free. oh you can just go along the great wall of china

oh. explore. take in the wonder of. the word check how college should look like something in order to bring right now. you can virtually visit national parks across the world. from california. to australia. you can look at over 2500 museums crust to go from here culch. ens you can even take your marks from little.

to big tourism sector no longer. welcome to visit the platform where we will have the opportunity to connect to one another. to speak. my home here's my lady. you know are you what. are you thinking what's the deal is 1st class and what you saw like. scholar or painters you saw. the really be valid. record decerning are long for east sewing and things that we know about our friends are wrong we were lucky as well like food like music like wine just people you know how we how being the

feeling but having greece it's not like you know like i say he's come. home for campaign 0 half the extraordinary period book we were all were going through. went one step further and introduced personalized online experiences in early april . and i should see. no cuts across the world offerings workshops a line. is healing adjectives. makeup it will be a good. foreign

culture cooking a traditional moroccan young. troops oh well you know the class was an experience i had i had video quality and cost and $15.00 u.s. dollars. some experts believe the trend to do to travel and connect may continue even the ones who are not as strict as have the toilet. we are going. to hold. the line. it's expected to tourism will turn more local and digital in the future which would further put deviation in the stream the could also decrease carbon emissions and have a positive impact on the.

watch will travel at least till we have good haptic support naval t.p.s. the speed instead of sensing the p. is for what it actually is so many people i've spoken to called n.p. bond to their homes we need to get back into nature in mumbai a unique walk for tourists meets 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 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 7 off and they show mumbai in their glamorous. run of things. every day is 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 other side of me the ground i was very interested either side is very vibrant and this river has a bigger. it. was the most personal 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 wali 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 in the guy's house is an embodiment of their philosophy a decades old star mind mound is safely in close. within the protective boundary of her brick wall she has no means of income and 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 creatures to the river to fetch water every day 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 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. we can do with the forests. 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 the scene psni seem unreal even though this part of us or communities have been living in their backyard. and one of them for mention in the morning it's somebody helping like you mentioned you never knew of this bar like after party or as he came to know probably that you know was this part i know it's already started really even i didn't know about something maybe once 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 working people here. this is called the darvon 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 folks. we don't try to preach about this and then people when you come to this. part of our example you realize that there is so much of interaction between and women there were people learn how the community is going to land and go the 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 stories and no amount of preaching will. go $100.00 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 a leecher many of us might look at the trees clowns animals and the ocean and call them crisis 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. that turns the 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 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 a child. 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 that is we can very clearly calculate the value of a wetland for storing carbon and for other services and this leads to conservation programs over private individuals can buy tracts of drained wetland and try to rehydrate them. mangroves are another valuable resource they will impose 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 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 only 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 of $21000000.00 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 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.

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