1. How the coronavirus pandemic connects to the climate crisis
I’ve been thinking about the climate crisis a lot this week. 2019 was the year the climate crisis finally got the attention it deserves – only to lose it in 2020 to an even more urgent crisis. And while drastic action to avert a climate catastrophe faced a lot of opposition, we now hope for drastic actions to slow the spreading of a virus. David Wallace-Wells, author of «The Uninhabitable Earth» (highly recommended!), connects the dots. «The crises each echo the other in some unshakeable ways…The lesson here is two-fold, or rather double-edged: we are vulnerable beyond our nightmares, and we can change much more about those brittle systems than we’ve ever really let ourselves believe.» Read it now.
2. Don’t forget: disasters and crises bring out the best in people
There are always counterexamples, but by and large, humans are kind when it counts. «This simple fact is confirmed by more solid evidence than almost any other sci…