“The fact that during the pandemic atmospheric pressure dropped and wild animals dared to walk where they would previously not proves exactly how aggressive and destructive our current way of living is. Covid-19 temporarily cleared the atmosphere. However, this is no time to celebrate. The only thing certain is that the pandemic has offered countries the opportunity to make a decisive step towards a greener planet. The decrease in CO2 emissions is what we should already have achieved as humankind. It is unfortunate that it took a pandemic that takes lives and destroys economies to bring us here,” writes Emmanuella Doussis in her article for newspaper “Fileleftheros”.

 

You can read the article in Greek here.