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

what can we do? At one level, there’s a quite a number of things we actually can do, both individually: bike more, fly less, recycle, compost, go vegan, put solar on your roof; and collectively: divest your self/work-place/city/church/school from fossil fuels, make a community resiliency plan, block a pipeline, sue an oil company, pass a Green New

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It’s too late for gradual change. Whatever happens now, humanity will be in a period of global, environmental, economic, political and social upheaval for decades – if not centuries – to come. But while it’s late in the day, every bit of warming matters, as every increment in temperature has more impact than the last. How soon we act matters, since

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Four-and-a-half years ago, as the COVID epidemic hit its first, horrible spike, Jamais Cascio , a professional futurist, wrote a prescient and helpful post titled, “Facing the Age of Chaos.” He began with this simple insight: “This current moment of political mayhem, climate disasters, and global pandemic — and so much more — vividly demonstrates t... See more

Now, fast forward to the Coronavirus Era. Everything is different.