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Good Tidings. SHARING SOME OF THE POSITIVE THINGS TO HAVE HAPPENED DURING 2020.
Same-sex marriage legalized in Costa Rica The President of Costa Rica, Carlos Alvarado congratulated the couple saying, “you have begun in law what has existed in love.” Costa Rica is the sixth country in Latin America to do so. The legalization of same-sex marriage is one step further in realizing full and equal rights for all of the LGBTQ community world wide
Pollution levels dropped significantly Because the entire world was quarantined because of the pandemic, the planet received the chance to have a well deserved breather. Pollution levels dropped significantly all over the world as transports and businesses were stopped. Just in 2019, the air quality levels had stooped so low that it was declared as a health emergency All we did was sit at home and the climate changed drastically, just imagine if we consciously put an effort toward the cause! We could save a great deal of damage and maybe even start to repair our beautiful planet.
Our oceans may not be totally doomed after all. In one of the more hopeful climate reviews as of late, a group of scientists projected that marine life could recover from human intervention in the next 30 years if policies around overfishing,
pollution,
and
habitat
restoration
are
implemented swiftly. "Recovery rates across studies suggest that substantial recovery of the abundance, structure and function of marine life could be achieved by 2050, if major pressures—including climate change—are mitigated.”
