Yes, there have been lots of stories about nature "bouncing back" during lockdowns. > all the types of social, economic, industrial and urbanization activity

Yes, there have been lots of stories about nature "bouncing back" during lockdowns. > all the types of social, economic, industrial and urbanization activity suddenly shut off, nature takes the advantages and showed improvement in the quality of air, cleaner rivers, less noise pollution, undisturbed and calm wildlife https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S004896972034095X https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489... Of course, "dampening our impact" has also set our economies back decades, caused untold misery, and has been particularly hard on the most vulnerable members of our society, which is an indication of the price we'd have to pay to help nature bounce back in this way.