Amanpour followed up by asking her guest if she believed the cleaner air could last after the pandemic ends, leading Goodall to feet that President Donald Trump and other "right-wing governments would continue allowing fossil fuels to be burned:
Bellow is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Friday, May 8, Amanpour & Co. on PBS and CNN International:
AMANPOUR: And you've seen, Jane, how the skies are clearer, the air is clearer because we've had two months plus now of much less air traffic, much less traffic on the roads. Do you think this is a moment that could last or do you have a little bit of cynicism about that?
JANE GOODALL: Well, I think it depends on the different countries. I mean, I know that China is already getting back to business as usual and has opened up a couple of coal-fired power plants. I think that President Bush will do exactly the same. And I think in some --
AMANPOUR: President Trump.
GOODALL: President Trump -- what did I say? President Trump.
AMANPOUR: No, that's okay, don't worry.
GOODALL: I think I said President Trump. Anyway, I meant to.
AMANPOUR: Yes, yes, yes.
GOODALL: But there are millions of people, I think, from the big cities who've never breathed clean air before or looked up and seen the stars shining in the night sky, and they won't want to go back to the old polluted days, the old pollution that's killing so many people every year. And so at the moment although I think there are too many world leaders who have swung to the right, who want to get back to business as usual, but I'm hoping there's a ground swell of people that will grow because we now know what the world could be like...
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