The roads are quieter than they have been for 30 years and the birds are in full voice.
There is no doubting the awful human and economic cost of the coronavirus crisis.
But you will also probably have heard lots of people say how beneficial it has been for the environment.
I imagine most people reading this have filled up their car with petrol no more than once since this all began.
With flights down by 95% and car use plummeting, surely we have emitted far less CO2 and other greenhouse gases right?
How much do you think emissions have gone down? 80%? 50%? 40%?
Alas no. The amount of emissions we are producing has actually gone down by….drum roll...8%.
To put that into perspective, we need to cut global emissions every year by 7.6% to keep global temperatures from rising 1.5C - the temperature which will prevent the most dangerous and damaging results of climate change.
But, 8%, really? Is that all? What is going on?
What this number tells us is that, though individual action is really important in the battle to stop our planet being, well, uninhabitable, it is just one piece of the jigsaw.
Without the support of our government this can not work. By support, I don’t just mean empty promises to plant some trees and stick a few electric car charging points around the place.
It needs our government to follow the science (lol). It needs our government to recognise the climate crisis for what it is, the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced. A challenge which makes coronavirus pale by comparison.
So why haven’t emissions gone down very much when many of us aren't going anywhere?
Well, part of the problem is that transportation is only 20% of global emissions whereas electricity and heating make up 40%. Though we are not in our offices or schools as much, we are still somewhere. We are still using electricity, the internet and keeping warm.
Many people, especially in rural areas of Wales, rely on oil to heat their water and homes. Some people use wood burners.
Even those using electricity are contributing to the emissions as only 33% of UK electricity comes from renewable sources.
And this doesn’t take into account manufacturing and industry that produce as much CO2 globally as transport. We still need goods and those goods still need materials.
As people who have to breathe near Port Talbot will tell you steel production is an enormous producer of emissions and pollutants.
All of this is not to say that we should not all still be doing our bit to lower our own personal carbon footprint. The scale of the crisis is so big it will only work if both governments AND individuals play their part.
One of the biggest polluters is the production of meat. Not only does feeding all those relentlessly flatulent cows cause huge amounts of emissions in themselves they also need to be put somewhere.
The associated deforestation to make room for these beasts strips the Earth of the trees that act as its lungs, taking out the carbon and giving us that sweet, delicious oxygen.
If you really want to play your part one of things that would make the most difference is changing your diet. Now I am not saying that you have to go vegan or even veggie. I love a juicy, bloody sirloin as much as the next person. However, if we all dramatically change the amount of red meat we ate it would make a massive positive change.
Not only would it make your environment (which lets face it, is the only one we have) much nicer but it would also make you less prone to many diseases and shift a few of those chins you have been meaning to get rid of.
If the coronavirus crisis has taught us anything it is that waiting until things are really bad to start planning is a monumentally stupidly dumb idea.
Climate change is, in some ways, much easier to deal with than coronavirus. We know how to solve the problems. It is not easy to solve them but we know how to do it. We are not stuck waiting for the clever people to come up with a vaccine. They have already worked out how to solve the problem.
All we have to do now is do it.
