‘We can’t go back to normal’: how will coronavirus change the world?

exacerbate the inequitable distribution of suffering. There is no question that the climate is going to change, and bring with it a lot of suffering. The question is how we navigate it.

exacerbate the inequitable distribution of suffering. There is no question that the climate is going to change, and bring with it a lot of suffering. The question is how we navigate it.

get was a slow accretion of awareness that was unlikely to achieve critical mass until our most vital time windows had closed. Then along came Covid. No, it wasn’t a climate event per se, but it was a global cataclysm that we all experienced together, viscerally, in our bodies and in our daily lives. Many of us lost loved ones. Millions died. (Over

we seem to be faced with an impossible dilemma: if we don’t want to be killed by climate change, we have to stop being ourselves. You can see why people aren’t exactly rushing to man the barricades. The thought of addressing it actually seems in some ways worse to us than being killed by it. Or put it another way, the thought of no longer being our

The human psyche naturally rebels against the idea of its end. Likewise, civilizations have throughout history marched blindly toward disaster, because humans are wired to believe that tomorrow will be much like today. . . . Yet the reality of global climate change is going to keep intruding on our fantasies of perpetual growth, permanent innovatio

get was a slow accretion of awareness that was unlikely to achieve critical mass until our most vital time windows had closed. Then along came Covid. No, it wasn’t a climate event per se, but it was a global cataclysm that we all experienced together, viscerally, in our bodies and in our daily lives. Many of us lost loved ones. Millions died. (Over