Rebecca Solnit on Climate

" ... we must fight the climate crisis with the same urgency with which we confronted coronavirus. She says: "My hope for a post-pandemic world is that the old excuses for doing nothing about climate – that it is impossible to change the status quo and too expensive to do so – have been stripped away." This piece comes within weeks of us reporting that carbon dioxide emissions must fall by the equivalent of a global lockdown roughly every two years for the next decade for the world to keep within safe limits of global heating.