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Mike Wehner
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- The coronavirus pandemic has forced many people to remain home for work, reduced commuting, and other outdoor activities.
- NASA satellites tracking thermal data and environmental pollutants show a dramatic change in air quality.
- In places like California that often struggle with air quality, the air was much cleaner after the pandemic hit with full force.
A global pandemic is a bad thing. There's really no way around it. COVID-19 has claimed nearly 300,000 lives in the United States alone, and the death toll is estimated at over 1.6 million worldwide. It's been devastating for so many families and, sadly, if things had been managed better it's possible that things wouldn't have gone down this way.
The ridiculously terrible tragedy of the pandemic aside, the fact that it has kept humans indoors more often than in a typical year has actually been beneficial to the planet in a number of ways. We've seen how some species have rebounded in the face of less human activity, and now it seems that air quality in the United States has seen huge improvements due to fewer people driving cars and fewer planes taking to the skies.
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