it's impossible to fully know or imagine how the pandemic changes the course we take on climate change, but from now on covid will be the closest reference point we have for an emergency requiring mass global-scale response

every excuse for not acting on climate—the costs, the economic pain, the unfathomable societal change, the difficult global cooperation—falls away when you look at the situation now.

at the very very least i hope it's the end of the "how do you pay for it" obsession