With the global Coronavirus outbreak there are a lot of questions being raised about international travel and there is also many environmentalists cheering on airlines collapsing whilst people are about to be quarantined at home all spending their own energy bills, cooking most of their own food whilst communal activities subside.
To have a lot of people sitting about at home spending their own energy bills and doing little communal activity is the “WORST” possible thing for the environment.
If people have to resort to driving to get to another country with say 1-6 people in a car it will still be much “WORSE” for the environment than an airline carrying 300 - 600 people.
Whilst also a health emergency that is probably linked in some way to how we treat our world… It has started to raise a lot of questions about what we need and what we don’t need and what we can do without and what we should keep and how things should change.
It presents an opportunity to do things differently in the world we live in, but we also must be careful that we don’t go too far and destroy social interaction completely and deny the opportunity to meet others around the world.
We all still share this world and we are all connected and whatever it is, by our nature we pass things on to others weather that be a virus (Health) economic issues (I don’t buy something making someone else poorer) and social (anger and fear are dangerous also for the environment).
We must remember that none of us are truly alone and we are all connected and are all affected by things no matter if it is good or bad or just is.
There is no doubt we must change the world we live in for the better of the environment but it is a case of how much is actually good and how much is actually bad.