The COVID Pandemic and Climate Change

Has anyone else noticed the sky seems clearer and the sunlight brighter in these horrendous days of the COVID-19 pandemic?

Are we being sent a message from on high?

This pandemic may be the best thing that has happened to the planet to forestall environmental pollution and climate change in 100 years. The birds are more abundant and wildlife are venturing back into areas they have not been seen in years.

We need to find better ways of protecting the environment that do not also inadvertently negatively impact the global economy. When we emerge from this crisis we must absorb the many lessons learned about ourselves and the environment we live in.

1 – We must rejoin the Paris Agreement on Climate Change to recalibrate our efforts with the rest of the world.

2- We need a ‘National Transportation Strategy for the 21st Century’, aimed at reducing automobile and airline traffic congestion. One way to achieve this goal is for employees who are currently working from home to continue to do so. I will be looking forward to studies that compare work productivity before and after instituting universal telework programs during this pandemic.

3- We need to expand mass transit within cities, build new intercity railways for travel between neighboring cities, and explore alternate means of travel. This includes the building of affordable high speed rail systems as part of major investment in rebuilding our national infrastructure. This is already being done. For example, private investors that includes visionary billionaire Richard Branson (Virgin Trains USA) are building high speed train service between Miami and Orlando and between the Los Angeles area and Las Vegas. Elon Musk is exploring hyper loop technology to do the same. They cannot do it alone. We need a national strategy to plan the best routes and the most cost-effective technologies.

If we can achieve these goals carbon emissions will drastically decline and our quality of life will increase ten fold.

The pandemic has forced major change in the way we live and work. In a short few months we are already seeing how quickly we can reverse the negative impact human activity has had on the environment since the industrial age began 160 years ago. This is good news.

In conclusion, this pandemic has been a wake up call for the world. We now realize how quickly we can reverse the damage to the ecosphere, if we work together. We cannot continue to allow our presence on this planet to destroy the only life support system we have. If we do we will become extinct by our own hand in wars over precious resources or we will suffocate to death or both. Its not too late to learn from the lessons of this pandemic.

References:

High Speed Rail Miami to Orlando:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/virgin-trains-usa-brightline%3famp=true

High Speed Rail California to Las Vegas:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/bus-train/virgin-train-between-california-las-vegas%3famp=tru

Hyper loop: https://hyperloop-one.com/

When the last tree is cut down, when the last fish dies, when the last river is contaminated. We will all realize we cannot eat money.

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Ernesto A Pretto Jr.

Father, Husband, Professor, Physician-Scientist, Humanitarian and Inventor.

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