I’m doing fine, asymptomatic at the moment and hoping to stay that way until a working vaccine shows up. Hope you’re the same, or better yet, that you had a mild case and are now immune.
Anyway, good wishes aside, I wanted to say something I haven’t dared say for weeks: as bad as this crisis is, I suspect it’s a training wheels exercise for what we’ll have to do to deal with climate change. What I think right now is that if we seriously try to flatten the curve on greenhouse gas emissions, that effort is going to be like what we’re going through now, but longer and more thoroughly disruptive. It pretty much has to be if we’re going to avoid a mass extinction.
However, if you’re an artist looking for inspiration out of the darkness, that isn’t a bad thing. Continue reading
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