What lies beyond the great Anthropause
Live MintRecently, Apple TV released a documentary called The Year Earth Changed. It was a team of UK researchers writing for Nature Ecology And Evolution in June 2020 that came up with the catchy phrase “anthropause” to describe the global reduction of human activity and mobility during the pandemic. In India, researchers observed the near doubling of species “illegally” killed for food during the lockdown last year. The Year Earth Changed has particularly poignant scenes of birds singing again near desolate airports and cheetahs being able to safely call out to their cubs without the rumble of tourist jeeps in the savannah. If enough of us shift our mental model to incorporate such suggestions, say the experts, people may enjoy the benefits of last year’s lockdown without its tremendous suffering.
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Conservation requires some amount of human presence on ground
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