As the war against COVID-19 brings entire countries to a screeching halt, the planet is beginning to see a glimpse into a world without the damaging effects of daily human impact. And that glimpse is startling.
With fewer planes in the sky, cars on the roads and foot traffic across our cities, air quality is improving dramatically around the world -- in some places by as much as half in just the first week of lockdown. It's a visual reminder of the toll humans take on this planet.David Quammen, author of"Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic," wrote about the likelihood of a coronavirus starting in an animal and spreading around the world.
"The choices we’re making in terms of what we eat, what we wear, where we travel, the types on consumer goods -- including consumer electronics that we buy -- how many children we have -- all of those things are putting pressure on the natural world and when we do that we bring wildLandscape of the Great Barrier Reef in the Coral Sea off the coast of Queensland, Australia, 2018.
Before the world all but stopped, humans had spent decades altering ecosystems on a scale like never seen before in modern times. With this loss ofUp to 1 million species of plants and animals are at risk of extinction and a staggering 40% of insects are under threat, according to the World Wildlife Fund.by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this"biological annihilation" represents a"frightening assault on the foundations of human civilization.
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