I recently watched a beautiful documentary called, The Year Earth Changed. It’s narrated by David Attenborough, of course. The film explores how well nature did during the pandemic because humans stopped driving cars, flying, boating, polluting, and creating so much sound and noise. The Ganges oxygen level rose by 80%. In parts of India, the Himalaya mountains were visible for the first time in four decades because of the disappearance of smog. In Alaska, humpback whales found the underwater environment 25 times quieter as cruise ships were cancelled and marine traffic was absent. In this silence, scientists found that humpbacks were talking to each other more often and across farther distances. Nature has now told us to tread lighter.
