Coronavirus Is Helping the Environment - for Now
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- Опубліковано 30 бер 2020
- The pandemic closing factories and keeping cars off roads may be good for emissions, but all of those gains are short term. While millions of workers are spending days at home, the Trump administration hasn’t dropped its work to counteract environmental progress. Today, it’s set to announce one of the most sweeping and consequential regulatory rollbacks of Trump’s presidency: a reversal of vehicle emissions standards enacted by the Obama administration.
The old rule forced auto-makers to increase fuel efficiency year-by-year at a rate of 5%, by taking mileage and emissions into account. Now car-makers will only have to increase efficiency by just 1.5% year-over-year. The rule was already in the works before the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the U.S., and it comes after the EPA announced it is no longer requiring companies to comply with a wide swath of environmental laws if they cite the pandemic.
So while pollution may be down for the time being in a few big cities in the U.S., a trend that’s playing out in India and in Hubei province, where levels of nitrogen dioxide fell by 40% during a strict lockdown, government moves to boost withering economies could turn back that progress.
As Hubei province opens back up, drivers are getting back behind the wheel, and auto-makers are back at work. Plans to reignite China’s economy could also reignite pollution-a report released by the NGO Global Energy Monitor found that China has approved plans for more coal-fired power capacity in the first three weeks of March than in all of 2019.
In the U.S., the congressional bailout package is helping fuel-inefficient airlines, while shunning the sector responsible for two of the fastest-growing occupations in the country: solar and wind technicians.
VICE News spoke to the CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, about what this means for the future of renewable energy, and for our climate.
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UwU
The creepy music adds to the suspense 😹
VICE News, you guys are just all 1 sided aren’t you??
The bees🐝🐝🐝 of the world thank COVID-19
Anyone factoring in the extra medical supplies hitting the landfills?
Make it a holiday. Stay home for 1 month every year.
GaMeR : YoU ChALLeNgE mE ?
Sounds like a good idea
@JJSmalls Not everyone lives in their parents basement like you. Some of us have to work..🤦♂️
The left wingers would love. They don't like to work anyways and want everything for free. Lmao
Theodore Sliwinski and you can work at home
It seems like humanity has never learned a single lesson. When corona virus was still at the horizon, we dismissed it and underestimated the damage it can cause. We are doing the same to climate change.
Bro tell that to India!
Stop watch anime
jeff michell throughout history the world has been cruel to humans. Only recently have humans took advantage of resources
Mother nature be like "Well, those dam dumb humans don't learn a dam thing, so now I'm gonna have to take almost all of them out of the equation, via disease to force then to pollute less....and do I blame her? NOPE!!! we deserve what we get, sad to say but its truth!!!
@@josephedward9107 what an excuse!!!
Tell that to ur country as well.
It's so annoying that no lessons are learned and we're just going right back to screwing the environment.
Letty Lunasical -when in face of catastrophe humans being have showed an incredible capacity of innovation, we will find a way to produce clean energy it’s just a matter of time. Think their is no priority since we eran effecting the global emission by less than 1%.
Comdeia Divina -that’s exactly what we are doing, but it’s not directly associated with the small percentage of pollution we produce. I think that’s why people in the media think we are not doing anything, before we run into a serious warm house effect we will reach a bigger problem which is our current models can’t support our future energy consumption demands. Yet what people fail to realize is that by creating more efficient models we will decrease pollution since we already know that using coal and fuel are not efficient overall.
humans are stupid they don’t care about our future
Mr. supplier -I think you are wrong, if we didn’t care about the future.. then why have we progressed so much in the fields of Math and science and tech... why are we investing millions towards innovation. As soon as we have a break through quantum computing... we will have further innovations to control climate maybe even utilize 100% of the suns energy. You should have more faith in humanity, because all the commodities you are enjoying right now are because of our innovations.
@@leonelhernandez220 The fact is that they knew the problem but waited until it was almost to late. They weren't funding the organizations that were trying to stop Coronavirus from spiking. Trump canceled money but now that it's serious it's an issue that came out of the blue. Them creating math and science isn't doing anything to help society it's making it worse. Making them create more gasses to be released in the air. It's true that they're using science to try and find cures for diseases. Have you seen anyone trying to donate to find a cure for cancer in the past 2 years even before Covid-19 broke out? No, we've been in situations exactly like these before and it's only resulted in deaths. Mankind isn't learning from its mistakes. Trump only just now started funding for Covid-19 and other stuff when he's been in office for almost his full term, keep in mind the problems were still there when he was in office still.
I want this isolation lockdown thing to be implemented once in a while. Never I've seen such clean air and noiseless city. I can hear the birds chirping
we're still allowed out to exercise in my city as long as it's 1-2 ppl and family only. And honestly going for jogs in my neighbourhood has never felt safer without large groups of guys that tend to loiter around in the parks. it's just joggers now or ppl walking dogs and old ppl stretching their legs
@@caramelcoffees I'm single
@@laneferal6756 wow great know but why?
@@laneferal6756 Good, stay single. Woman are expensive and have too many problems.
A city isn't supposed to noiseless you friggin dolt there are actual quiet places year round where you can live. Another demented liberal lunatic.
This was my prayer for the last two years. I wanted everyone to sit in there homes for a month and see what kind of impact this would do on weather around the world. Tired of seeing forest fires here in BC Canada. Every year for the past 5 years its been getting worse. I didn't pray for people to get sick though I just wanted everyone to chill for a month.
YOU DID THIS!!
I would have prayed for people to get sick as well cuz they deserve it for what they have done to our planet. Killing animals, chopping trees.. let them feel the exact pain mother nature suffered
When Mother Nature strikes back.
Really???
@@Baffour459 god these religious zealots
Nope,when chinese communist party stikes back
Its just trying to kill whatever is killer her
Lol, we are part of mother nature. I see people making the distinction between humans and animals/planet earth so often while that’s just plain wrong. Nor is there a morally good or wrong in the perspective of nature, it’s all just a balancing act
Humans: we don't have enough money to spend on cleaning river and protecting earth.
Nature: OK, let me handle this....
True
Yet we have enough money to bailout companies and fund organizations for propaganda
By "nature," you mean Wuhan biological warfare laboratory. 😷
No desire you mean
@Chuck Oh shut up, you know fully well the amount of Co2 produced by humanity pumped an unnatural amount into the environment
Earth: I don't feel so good
COVID-19: Say no more!
Ursa Major lol. No it’s actually because the Chinese eat bats and shit.
COVID-19: exists
Nature: Hippity Hoppity your civilization is not my property.
Now*
for Now
Nowwww
hippity hoppity give me the zoppity.
-Michael Scott
Sorry meant now
Nuclear energy: allow me to introduce myself
Chernobly.
All the Nuclear Energy used by the country of France
*reintroduce
Alejandro Cabrera we getting there fusion, oh wait....nvm
Mother Nature : the hell with your nuclear weapons, I'll bring 30m tall tsunami 😂😂😂
I wonder if people will see the results of this...
@Arthur Kitchen "it's false" god... some people will just go against the grain with anything. You are so fucking clueless, especially if you live in an Urban society, it is evident even birds are more active. Now believe me, I am far from a climate change extremist, in fact I believe in true activism for the climate instead of spewed propaganda for political gain, but this is one of the truest pieces Vice has touched upon in quite sometime. Get over your fucking bias opinion on climate change extremists and see that even many of them just have good intentions and are just trying to do some good.
won't be noticeable to most people. I mean. look at how many people still don't believe in climate change anyway. It will provide anopportunity for Scientists to study impacts on climate/melting/atmosphere as a direct result of emissions in ways they could never dream of, though.
@Arthur Kitchenlol go tell that to people who live on islands
I shudder to think where all the medical waste from this pandemic will end up.
A furnace, surely. I'm almost certain any infectious waste (not just covid but any kind of body fluid as well) is put in specailty bins that are collected and incinerated.
@@cygneturesounds It's ending up in the bay in Hong Kong. That will be the case in most places, I imagine.
@@KR-nv3ru Like, washed up on a bay or is the bay a facility?
Burning is the only option
An animal will ingest some then we’ll be off to the races again once it’s consumed by a human 👁👃👁
I hope that we all eventually learn from this, and stop letting governments bail out oil funded corporations.
David we aren’t ever unless this virus kills half the damn population
This Reporter’s vocal fry is making this video painful to listen to...
Coupled with his upspeak
I kinda like it
He sounds like he’s holding a starbucks and having his nails done while doing the voiceover.
Mother Nature to miss Corona: "You're doing great sweetie."
Bi Ph Bi Ph Bi Ph Bi Ph Why would you say that?
@@crazyhomer777 We might die soon sis, lets nature werk it. Mother Nature to Marie Kondo after seeing empty cities: "This one spark joys."
@@BiPhBiPhBiPhBiPh
So you're saying innocent deaths are a good thing?
@@josephstalin3170 The teas you're serving. I love it.
Bi Ph Bi Ph Bi Ph Bi Ph Holy s##t
Just 100 years ago, there were more than 200,000 wild lions living in Africa. Today, there are only about 20,000; lions are extinct in 26 African countries and have vanished from over 95 percent of their historic range. And their p0pulation continues to decrease as the human p0pulation increases. ~
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India also has lost vast swathes of forests due to growing p0pulation and urbanisation in recent decades, as a result- Endangered elephants and tigers are k.illing one person a day in India as humans continue to encroach on the little habitat that these animals have left.
100 years ago, the majority of the world was in abject poverty, today while still a problem - the situation has vastly improved. We are able to traverse large distances in very short amounts of time and can communicating across the planet. Everything has it's draw backs.
The situation for those wild animals is only going to get worse since Africa's population is set to reach 3x that of Europe by 2050. And India is set to become the most populated country in the world surpassing China before 2050
A lot of this is due to Western interference in Africa. Without Western medicine and technology the human population would not be anywhere near what it is now.
A lot is due to crazed poachers. Not the modern advancement of mankind. I suppose you could go to Africa and do something about it if you wanted to. Let me know if you need directions to the serengeti
@Scott Albrecht
Over breeding humans encroaching more and more each day on the little land that endangered wild animals have left is hardly an achievement.
His voice is killing me
Same, his delivery of this report is throwing me way off.
Why. Does. He. Pause. After. Every. Word?
Sounds like the burger king foot lettuce guy lmao
That's how every metro blogger, wanna be journalist's voice sounds, with an elevated tone towards the end of their words that almost sounds sarcastic, yet they think they're sounding firm, confident and factual.
He talks every phrase with a question.
@@LuG8911 I actually think, that people who, talk like this, as if there's, a comma, after every few, words, are the, most narcissistic, fuckers, you can, ever imagine.
If countries continue to choose their economical situations over the environment, it’s ONLY A MATTER OF TIME before another pandemic emerges - THIS TIME, FROM CLIMATE CHANGE
Arthur Kitchen let me explain it to you. All the burning of fossil fuels, coal, and what-not, will lead to a much warmer climate. Bacteria will mutate themselves to adapt to that warmer climate. And humans aren’t capable of mutating, we’re only capable of adjusting here and there to the conditions. But not to such an extreme like climate change. We’re capable of adapting to a 1 or 2 degree Celcius change, not more than that. So there’ll be more infections in the future, because of the already-weakened immune systems in our body thanks to air pollution and climate change.
The narrator sounds like "Chills"
Yea
Yeah he drags his words and it's really annoying
He’s intolerable - way too femininnnneeeee
Talks like a self-absorbed airhead valley-girl.
G D but I think he may be a dood...we don’t know what he identifies as though 🤨
Nature and Mother Earth will heal itself but humanity will end.
*"No.15 COVID-19 foot lettuce"*
*The last thing you want in your COVID-19 disease is someone's foot fungus*
if virus finished, i would like to do a lockdown happen again atleast every year without viruses, you can go out but no vehicle to travel
If slowing economic activities down is the perfect solution to climate change. Then there would be no economic activites by now. However, it has a negative effect called an Recession. The cons of shutting down factories and putting workers at home has affected many countries at this point. If people are out of job, they would care less about climate change.
if people are out of a life, they could care even less about a job
@@user-fg8ux8zo6w True, but it seems now that it is far quicker and far more likely for recession to happen if we were to halt all economic activities today than for people to die due to climate change.
@@user-fg8ux8zo6w Besides, if you look at recessions in the past, it is also pretty bad. People are struggling to feed their families, and people might as well starve to death or get killed by diseases like the coronavirus. Not so easy to choose this over climate change, I would say the correct way forward is neither.
4:20 Nice
William Bennett Ay first like 😤🔥⛽️ 💨
@William Bennett Is it refering to "weed day".
4:19 but ok
😆
nice
helping the enviroment is a good thing
Yet no one talks about the main polluting industry- The Meat Industry
Try telling that to bolsonaro that bastard deserves his country to hate him, now they see his real nature
Shh don't tell anyone. But that's okay. Vice did a good video on it.
Or over population. Stop having so many babies!!
Why cant we take this as a reboot and do things right or at least better?? (In all fields: health, economy,, enviromental...)
This virus could very well a sign from our higher power, precisely designed to re-align our civilization with a more purified lifestyle. Even if you dont see it as a sign if we dont realign our collective lifestyle we will go extinct.
Well the Democrat Party in the U.S. is trying to push through an economic stimulus bill for green eneegy industries like solar and wind, so theres that
@@dustyeyer3573 please no need to put a higher power in the middle of this
@@SurprisinglyDeep Yeah but they are not in power and with Trump, Poutin, jingping and the nationalist rise in Europe... I'm septic
@@AD-jq7ow why not, if you were created (something you cant deny) why ignore what created you, maybe something which has the ability to create you also has the ability to show you signs.
Humans" I cant breathe"
Earth "F U I Can"
Thanos Was Right , Small Price For Salvation
I live in a big city in Brazil, a week after the quarantine requested by the government a toucan appeared in my bedroom window. I had never seen a bird so beautiful and wild like this before in my life!
what it taste like
@@bobsagget823 LOL... I am vegetarian!
Yes i like to see road without car's.the air fresh. Beach water clean.sky clear.
Technically COVID has done a lot of favors to the world, like reducing carbon footprint, solving overpopulation conflicts, and reducing air pollution. It's like humans can't take care of the planet, so nature took its problems into its hands, unless of course, this pandemic is manmade, and global environmental change is the aim of its maker.
We can conduct all of our businesses only if the Earth stays as a hospitable place. So I think environment in the top priority.
Apparently wanting to work 4 days a week for 6 hours a day(with no pay cut) is communism
Unless the covert plan is to actually destroy everything and everyone...
@@camerontaylor7471 lol no, the people who run massive corporations are just idiots who choose to deny climate change because they know it makes them rich. They're on the sinking ship too.
Pulutoin has decriced
Cleaner water
Cleaner air
Co2 decided
Traffic levels drop 35%
Need better narrators. No Chills sounding ass dudes.
Mother Nature finally striking back
🧠🧠🧠👋🤣
@Dragon1717 Don't tell the retarded Gaians that it might mess up their simple worldview of HuManS BAd, NAtuRe GOod
Zeke Housley okay
i hate life Simple as that So you want death?
i hate life Simple as that Know wonder why your Username Exists
Is this your normal voice... Just asking.... For a friend
This is a wake up call we have to find a balance between industry and environment or at least freaking try
It’s been a blessing for families that are used to being at home for most of the time.
and right before the outbreak, china bought up australia's medical supplies, stopped medical supply shipments, and is reselling it to australia 60% higher than original price
OBAMAISM NEVER WORKS
@@user-fg8ux8zo6w Stop blaming Obama!
So what
@Daniel Minic If you want to find a weirdo, go look in the mirror.
lets get this clean energy back and being built up, yeah?
Thank you Vice News for considering my thoughts about this. I was one of the people who took your survey last week of March 2020.
I vote that using bus’s and trains only for traveling around. And using cars is for emergency’s like hospital’s and etc.
Mother nature: start in china
Covid-19:why?
Mother Nature: they eat any type of animal.
Covid-19: oh okay, what do i do next?
Mother nature: make sure the humans stop going out, so i can continue to work on myself.
Covid-19: yes ma’am.
Obvious propaganda is obvious
So is your ignorance.
0:36 Hey, it’s that art piece! “The Bean” !
1:08 that part of the city looks amazing, like a painting Escher or whatnot!
It's also helping china monetize on a pandemic it created
This reporter’s voice and style of speaking is annoyingly cringing. Sorry couldn’t even focus on the importance of this issue.
Ayy shoutout the vice editor making it 4:20 long 😎
I’m really going to miss the fresh air I haven’t even been suffering from my usual seasonal allergies.
Title - “Coronavirus is saving the environment - for now” For now?
Why does the voiceover sound like a guy trying to sound like a Californian girl
Do farts also count as wind energy?
But what about all the trash from over consumption & excess purchasing?
So they need to this every 3 months for at least a month!!
rich minds I had a brain aneurysm reading this shit.
4:20 nice ....
Am I the only one who was not ready for that voice?
The world should do more for the environment for good reason
420 almost here but vice 420 today
The biggest thing that annoys me is
"For Now"
Who makes all those solar panels...and wind generators 🤦♂️
If you are retired...the cruise ship industry is important...many Americans retire on these ships.
What's with the narrator's voice? Talks like a Beverley Hill's girl.
thats called a yuppy 20yr old.
Make China pay
*Looks at length* "4:20"
Nice.
and so what happens when all the plants that breathe CO2 suddenly have much less? they will grow slower and smaller - and they will produce less oxygen.
The day the earth stood still.
in the end, nature will find a way to even itself out
Video's thumbnail : hazy skyscraper
Video's length : 4:20
*I see what you did there, Vice news*
Don't forget about LED retrofits. If you want to boost renewable energy you should also consider efficient energy. Those rebates should be considered nationwide
We should be switching to nuclear energy. Talk about efficiency.
Ayyoo 4:20 bro!!!!
Toad : NICEEEEEEEE
Is this supposed to be a joke?
It's 4:19 long but ok
Its a double edge sword. In one hand this helped the environment but in the other hand the economy has taken which will/have affected us special in our employment.
This video was great, but the narrators upspeak was distracting.
Just got done burning all my tires to keep warm under the bridge.
Change the title to "How an economic recession is helping the environment", yeah, doesn't sound so good now does it?
Well we are still ok for now, but economy will be meaningless for future generations without a habitable planet to survive on.
Covid-19: Kills people
Vice: Wow there is so little smog now that's crazy
Vice News also did several videos on the pandemic outbreaks in several countries
@@SurprisinglyDeep I am not saying they didn't?
@@diogenescasares4294
Well you're saying that Vice is not focusing on the human cost even though they are and its just that this video in particular is about pollution not the human cost
Pollution kills people every year....now that's crazy.
It’s a reset button, what’s more worrisome is when the engine actually restarts. Benefits without understanding where it came from can be dangerous 😔
In every month for 2 days there should be lock down with no transport except electric, no industrial work walking allowed world should pass this mandatory.. Nature Need rest
Mother Nature wants her world back
❤️
Lol american petroleum association ask for no environnemental regulations... Do ya think?
0:37 :O it's the bean!!
TIME TO FIND A NEW PLANET , WALL-E 🤖CLEAN UP
I love that movie
thats a good movie lol
Only vice would think millions without work & potentially going homeless to save a few trees is a good idea.
No trees no life
Silent minority Amen. All the environmentalists
are going to be surprised when they discover you cant force companies to pay for environmental cleanups, mitigation and preservation when they are bankrupt.
Hope this quarantine lasts for a few years
Is it just me or is that the sound track to Motorsport manager?
I rather help the earth then help useless humans.
-alien626
A slap in the face to all the people who have lost loved ones
It's not though? Not everything is an *attack* - this is puts important issues into perspective outside of the loss of human life.
It's stating a matter of fact - the people have hidden away to avoid infection, which has objectively resulted in positive global environmental impacts
In this case air pollution and issues resulting from climate change kills *MILLIONS* of people, and will by comparison cause even greater long-term harm.
@@BF2shaun37 Air pollution and climate change wont kill millions of people.
Just before water reaches boiling point it goes silent for a while
Thank you for making a video about something I was thinking 2 weeks ago
This guys voice is so anoying
Mother nature said I had enough of your crap!
No it won't because nature isn't a single hive mind organism and can't formulate thoughts or opinions. Stop personifying something that is nothing more than the biosphere made up of millions of separate creatures that interact with each other. Nature is as sentient as a city is, its nothing more than animals, plants, fungi, and bacteria interacting on a massive scale.
Nature doesn't care one way or another if the whole planet is rendered uninhabitable, because it is not self aware and capable of thought or opinion. The Gaia hypothesis was more mysticism and pseudoscience and not based on anything, as the whole hypothesis was created James Lovelock.
In Joseph Lawrence's book, Gaia: The Growth of an Idea, Lawrence argued that Kirchner's attacks were principally against Lovelock's integrity, and not against the hypothesis itself. Lovelock did not attack Kirchner's views until his autobiography Homage to Gaia, in which he dismissed Kirchner's position as sophistry. Lovelock, however, did attempt to disprove the claim that the theory is not scientific because it is impossible to test it by researching and developing a controlled experiment, i.e., it is not falsifiable.
Lovelock was also careful to present a version of the Gaia hypothesis which had no claim that the Earth's biological systems intentionally or consciously maintained the complex balance in the environment that life needed to survive. Instead, it appears that the claim that Earth acts intentionally was a metaphoric statement and was not meant to be taken literally. This restatement of the Gaia hypothesis was more acceptable to the scientific community, although, at this point, pretty much devoid of meaning.
The progenitor of the Gaian entire school of thought said it wasn't to be take literally and was only a metaphoric statement , and not to be take literally.
Most of the systems used as examples or explanations to support this "hypothesis" make no sense in regard to the reality of how life has evolved and the environment has changed.
While, among other factors, life on Earth certainly alters the environment, the life that then is seen thriving evolved and adapted to do so, thus there is no magical mechanism that endlessly returns conditions to some "ideal" balance. This is easiest to see over longer terms - before plants started photosynthesizing, there was no free oxygen in the atmosphere - and when they did, there was a mass extinction of creatures to whom it was poisonous; this was known as the Great Oxygenation Event.
Also, according to most scientific critics, especially Dawkins and Ford Doolittle, the Gaia hypothesis requires an ecological foresight and teleologism to be true, concepts that are not scientifically viable, and are considered about as scientific as intelligent design.
Very thoughtful response but that was TOTALLY unnecessary lol.
VICE you're above the "UA-cam voice"
Not here in england people still burning tires..
Luckily I care more about the environment than I do a bunch of boomers dying
You guys seem like really good people. 👍🏼
not when those boomers are our parents.
Bill It is a sacrifice, I am willing to make
Corona virus: maybe I don’t want to be the bad guy anymore
Every single Line? The Narrator reads? Sound like a question? I can't sit through this...
LOL
In south Of Portugal where i live never rain so much when the pollution started to decrease as is a fact now.
Public health vs economic stability vs environmental conservation