The environment in the post-pandemic scenario: Sustaining the gains

Abstract

In a recent correspondence, the authors noted how temporary the experience of improved air quality in the Philippines during the pandemic. They argued that beyond the crafting of policies and guidelines, there must be a solid attitudinal change in the way a person looks, behaves and lives with his/her surroundings. I support that stance and would further argue that community-based approaches can reinforce that desired change and outcome especially in remote villages and communities where group/communal identity is far more normative than individuated identification.