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🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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The waters have cleared in Venice, air pollution over China has dropped and goats have reclaimed a Welsh town. But just how sustainable are these seemingly positive side effects of the coronavirus crisis on our climate and the natural world?
Guest: Liz Bonnin, scientist and natural history presenter.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: BBC, NBC, Channel 4, DW News.
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0:00.0 | The thing about life in lockdown is that it really makes you appreciate the world outside your window. |
0:08.0 | I'm noticing the green of the trees and the songs of the birds and the blue of the sky. |
0:15.8 | Everything is heightened. |
0:17.7 | Has lockdown provided us all with an opportunity |
0:21.1 | to re-evaluate our relationship with the planet. |
0:26.0 | The best case scenario, Manveen, would be we wake up. |
0:30.0 | We wake up and we realize that we want to do life differently because all of the things, the simple things that really matter to us are fundamentally being threatened because of how we do life. |
0:44.0 | Will we be able to balance the need for industry to reopen and our desire to travel |
0:49.0 | while reducing our global footprint? |
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0:54.0 | time footprint. You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
0:56.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
0:58.0 | Today, COVID-19 and the natural world with Liz Bonin. This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber. |
1:22.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
1:26.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply, check the Uber app. |
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