INFORMATIVE TEXT ESSAY : GLOBAL AIR POLLUTION HAS FALLEN DURING LOCKDOWN COVID19
COVID-19 has driven the global economy to a near-halt
as the pandemic sweeps the globe. After lockdown, air pollution has fallen. With
factories shuttered and cars parked in garages, air pollution has dissipated in
cities. The Chinese capital Beijing, known for the lung-choking levels of toxic
pollution that shroud the city, has had the unusual sight of clear skies as
factories in the region have shut down production. Given China’s huge problems
with air pollution, which causes an estimated 1 million premature deaths a
year, the reduction has offered unexpected relief.
The
spread of coronavirus is fast enough to make almost all the world experience
this pandemic. All countries experience economic crises, such as unemployee,
starvation, factory closures, salary cuts that do not meet work standards.
On
14 April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) updated its
global growth projections from only three months ago, indicating that the
global economy is expected to experience its worst recession since the Great
Depression, surpassing the deep economic slump following the global financial
crisis a decade ago. Earlier in April, the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA) analysed the effects of the containment
measures and projected that the world economy could, in the worst-case
scenario, contract by up to 1 per cent. Similarly, the OECD stated in
early March that increasingly stringent lockdown measures in most of the
world’s advanced economies would inevitably result in significant declines in
GDP growth.
Several
case happened in the Asian countries especially Indonesia. Impact of corona
virus is amazing. Almost Indonesian people work in factory. When Indonesia did
lockdown, the closure factory happened and many thousand people unemployment.
Many people worry how they can eat in two month later. many people starve to death. Another case,
the increased of crime. Because they don’t have money, many people did theft. Such
as, killed person and stole his motorcycle, phone or money.
Coronavirus not only
make negative impact, but has a good impact for the world. Cleaner
air has perhaps been the single greatest positive effect of the
lockdowns on the environment. Citizens in Northern India are seeing the view of the
Himalayan mountain range for the first time in their lives, due
to the drop in air pollution caused by the country's coronavirus lockdown. Those
living in Jalandhar in northern Punjab have shared pictures of the mountains
from rooftops and empty streets, amazed by the view which has been hidden by
pollution for 30 years.
In
Indonesia, we also have many changes for air pollution. Jakarta is metropolitan
city and including the most pollution city in Indonesia. But after government did
lockdown almost two week, we can see how the cleaner air, nice cloud in the morning
and evening, sometimes after rainy we often see rainbow. Recent years, I rarely
saw how beautiful rainbow, but right now we often see rainbow.
As we know, lockdown has Positive impact for the
world. Satellite images show reduced levels of nitrogen dioxide and carbon
dioxide. I don’t know to gratefull or not during coronavirus. Many people die
everyday but in the other side, the world felt healty.
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