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COVID-19 Impacting the Whole World¡¯s Environment
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Temporarily, COVID-19 significantly helped the global carbon emission rate to fall off by more than 5 to 10 percent in New York and more than 25 percent in China. In Korea, the CO (Carbon oxide) was in the range of 0.297 to 0.529ppm in 2020, compared to 0.332 to 0.642ppm in 2019. The satellite showed the emission of nitrogen gas, which causes acid rain and respiratory disease, also fading out at the start of the year due to the pandemic. In most countries, governments implemented lockdown internally and externally. As transportations were heavily impacting the environment, reductions in human activities and movements with transportation decreased global greenhouse gas emissions substantially, which led to drastic improvements in air quality.

While the significant drop in global greenhouse gas emission due to the Covid-19 may seem beneficial to the environment, the reality speaks differently. Disposable products such as plastic face masks, hand sanitizer bottles, gloves, food packaging, and household goods are discarded all over the place on our streets and oceans. COVID-19 led us to use more than 129 billion face masks and 65 billion gloves every month globally. If these face masks and gloves gathered up altogether, it will be able to cover the entire landmass of Switzerland. An enormous amount of face masks will risk marine lives. For example, a turtle will see a face mask floating in the water and accidentally eat it think that it is a jellyfish. Moreover, the elastic string attached to the face mask will also increase the risk of bird or marine animal to be tied up to the string.
Before COVID-19 existed, plastic pollution was one of the biggest issues on the planet. Lockdowns were supposed to keep people safe and stop the pandemic from spreading, as well as to reduce the carbon emission rate. However, as people were doing self-quarantine in their houses, the daily use of plastic products increased and made plastic pollution even worse. Disposable products are delivered across the world, and food is delivered - overly wrapped packaged - daily to homes as people around the world get used to online order and takeout services. Excessive amounts of single-use plastic wastes are produced every day. According to a survey from the New York Times, during the eight weeks of lockdown in Singapore, the 5.7 million residents discarded 1,470 more tons of plastic waste from food delivery and takeout package than usual.

In December 2019, COVID-19 have landed in our world and initially showed some positive impact on the environment such as improved air quality and decreased greenhouse gas emissions. Would this positive impact be a long-term one? When the pandemic dies down over a few years, people will resume outdoor activities and activate their industry even more than before to recover every single deficient work they were restricted to do. More plastic pollution happened during the COVID-19 crisis, and we are reaching an irrevocable point when nobody will be able to recover our planet. Climate is changing dynamically, and this is the period where humans must carry out actions to change the world.

 

 

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