Answer to Question #229440 in Sociology for NEO

Question

Reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic, and identify the positive and negative environmental impacts resulting from the pandemic; indicate how societal activities have facilitated these impacts.

Answer 1

COVID-19 brought about numerous negative influences in society. It has jeopardized physical interactions as people focus at maintaining social distances. O the same note, businesses that are dependent on social interactions has failed making it hard for them to run. On the other hand, it has some positive influences such that the notoriously dirty, the waterways and rivers in the world look cleaner, the air fresher, the smog gone, the haze dispersed and the wildlife has filled the open spaces, coronavirus lockdowns across the world seem to have a number of positive effects on the environment. Millions of the people have been cooped up indoors but the natural world outside has continued to rumble on and the natural world is benefiting from our absence