The social distance method which helps to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic has a surprisingly big benefit for the environment. Read more below!

Covid-19 pandemic helped reduced emissions and pollution significantly!

While the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic which has led to a big shut down in various industrial activities, it did bring a big effect on our environment. Notably, it has helped to reduced the air pollution level worldwide; based on the recent satellite image from the European Space Agency (ESA). This surprisingly change could be one of the “largest-scale experiment ever”  regarding the reduction of industrial emissions, according to an expert.

According to the Sentinel-5P of ESA report in the past six weeks, the nitrogen dioxide (NO2) level in big cities and industrial clusters in Asia and Europe shows significant changes. It is notably lower than the level of this time last year. Car engine, power station, and other industry progress produce Nitrogen Dioxide; which intensifies respiratory diseases like asthma. 

Moreover, the pollutants come from the greenhouse effect of the industrial activities emit carbon; which drives up the global warming progress. The professor of air pollution at the University of Leicester – Pual Monks – claimed that this is a necessary lesson for everyone. “We are now, inadvertently, conducting the largest-scale experiment ever seen. Are we looking at what we might see in the future if we can move to a low-carbon economy? Not to denigrate the loss of life, but this might give us some hope from something terrible. To see what can be achieved.”

Lesson

Monk – who is the former chairman of British government scientific advisory committee – has claimed that the decrease in air pollution would benefit people susceptible to asthma. “It could reduce the spread of disease. A high level of air pollution exacerbates viral uptake because it inflames and lowers immunity.”