This chapter examines the community response of Indian urban dwellers to the uncertainty posed by Covid-19. The study uses the global footprint calculator developed by the Global Footprint Network as an instrument to collect personal ecological overshoot day for the respondents in normal times (based on recall) and during the Covid times. We find a significant difference between the two and thus see a significant reduction in the resulting ecological footprint during the new normal. Literature shows that stress on self-regulation, warm glow, education and awareness campaigns have had limited success in motivating people to reduce their ecological footprint. In comparison, our results show that the vulnerability due to the pandemic and expectancy of future shortage acts as an external shock that leads to the community response of regulating its ecological footprint significantly. This finding reinforces that consumption constraining environmental regulations by policymakers can be more effective than the ones raising environmental efficiency in production because there is no rebound accompanying it. The reduction in ecological footprint has been short lived like any change resulting due to a crisis. For a sustained reduction in ecological footprint, we recommend a policy mix focusing on environmental efficiency and sustainable consumption.