By Jae Jin Kim
Post Corona, it refers to a new era and situation that will come after overcoming COVID-19. As changes caused by COVID-19, such as movement restrictions, distancing, and telecommuting, become commonplace, some predict that human history will be divided into Before Corona(BC) and After Corona(AC). COVID-19 has caused a major change in all areas of human politics, economy, society, and culture, etc. I think one of the biggest changes is people's perception of the environment. After the pandemic, people began to be interested in the ecological environment, starting with the cause of COVID-19. They became more immersed in the environmental problems that occurred before the pandemic and began to present problems and future solutions.
Urs Kessler, who runs the raitway tourism industry at Jungfrau Peak in the Swiss Alps, the highest in Europe, expressed a serious economic downturn caused by the pandemic, saying, "The impact of COVID-19 has never been small over the past three years.". He thought of a new tourism business now that COVID-19 has calmed down. He felt how important environmental protection was due to COVID-19 and focused on preserving nature. Through constant communication with residents, environmental groups, and the government, the number of cable pillars connecting the gondola was reduced and the height was lowered to minimize forest damage. He took the lead in protecting the ecosustem, saying, "More than anyone else, we must preserve and protect nature.".
Urs Kessler (Gredit: http://weekluchosun.com/news/articleViewhtm?idxno=24370)
Yonhap News Agency in South Korea announced that more citizens are dancerned about environmental pollution caused by the use of disposable products and plastic as COViD-/9 has reduced eating our and has significantly increased the number of cases of packaging or delivering food. People who are interested in environmental pallution are conducting an environmental protection campaign called Vegan Week to reduce disposable products and
alleviate animal breeding and distribution pratiens. "The current siruation, in which all mankind has suffered from the GOVID-/9 incident for more than a year, is a matter of animal breeding and distribution and global ecology. a Seoul company official said, expressing the seriausness of environmental pollution caused by GOVID-19 and the need for environmental protection.
A pile of recyclable waste (Credit: frips//awwynacefr/wew/ACK2020/2/6/4/300004,
All of these people in various fields emphasize that environmental protection after the Pandemic is an important and necessary action. The human animal contact method, which is drawing attention as the cause of coronavirus, zoonosis, is an opportuniny to reflect on the wrong relationship humans have with animals, people, and the environment.
There is a concept called "One heaith" which drew attention in the early doys of the pandemic ir means that Human health, animal hearh, and natural heath are connected to each other, and if either health collapses, the rest cannot be healthult means "This implicitly indicates that the coronavirus has come to frumans as the average temperature of the Earth rises due to climate change, the habitat of animals such as bats expands, and the distance between fumans and wildlife is gerting claser due to reckless forest destruction far grownh and develapment. Hawever, there is an important point to observe here This concept is not a concept that has emerged wirh COWD-19 or is previously interested or difficult for us to understand. This meant that people had litrie interest in the environment before corona and became aware that peoples misbehavior was ruining the glabal environment. According to many environmental and medical experts if we continue to live in the same way as before, a more powerful virus will enter our lives than COVID-19. This is an ecologically and medically well founded fact, and experts warn, and we are also clearly confirming this fact. No one knows what human greed for profit will do. However, now, attention must be paid to environmental protection to prevent situations such as COVID-19 from coming.
There are so many environmental campaigns that we can practice, such as reducing disposable products, plogging, banning indiscriminate logging, and banning factory breeding, etc. Such activities are also one of the effective ways we can protect the environment. However, I think it is most important to provide environmental education so that we know why we should protect nature and why situations like COVID-19 have occurred. If you don't know why you're such activities and just practice it, you won't be motivated and youll get tired of it easily. I wonder if it is environmental education to inform about nature protection, separate emissions, and disposable products. I think there is no right answer to environmental education However, / think the process of reflecting on what "environment" means to you and finding an answer to it is a definite environmental education. I am also part of the environment and everything in the world, including myself, is the environment. Gurrently, environmental education is being conducted in various ways, but education under the theme of "environment" still lacks many things for people It is an important education that has no boundaries for all classes and can be expanded to all fields. As such, environmental education is a true environmental protection in an area where more diverse people can participate and expand indefinitely than any other environmental protection. In an era of climate crisis and pandemic, what the world needs may be 100 or 1,000 or more citizens with environmental interests and philosophy rather than one expert to solve this situation.
Sources
1. "COVID-19 is over! To the roof of Europe." Urs Kessler, CEO of Yungfrau Railway weeklychosur
2. "The Earth is likely to collapse due to the outbreak of infectious diseases Opening up environmental protection practices amid COVID-19.
Yonhap News Agency
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