How not to lose clean air gains

What is clear is that this joy of nature has come at enormous and unacceptable human cost to millions in the world

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Sunita Narain 

Sunita Narain

On April 22, when the world celebrated Earth Day, we were (and still are) in the midst of the grimmest reminder of nature’s revenge as Covid-19 shut down our economies. However, it is also a fact that today Delhi’s smog has cleared; the air is simply sublime — we can see the blue skies and the birds are just loving it.

Their sounds have taken up the silence of the car horns. In all our cities — across the world — as we lock down to deal with this mutant virus, which is killing people and making our world tragic and horrendous, it seems almost that nature is ...

First Published: Sun, May 03 2020. 23:52 IST