Some things the pandemic teaches us, which also inform climate breakdown. Shooting from the hip, please add more:
The world that seemed so solid is anything but.
The world that seemed so solid is anything but.
Act as soon as scientists sound the alarm. Don’t wait.
No one is really in charge. Our future is up to us.
When we feel something is an emergency, we change our behaviors in like a day.
We truly are all in this together. We are enmeshed. Your health is my health. Your air is my air. Your climate is my climate.
Horrible as this pandemic is, the feeling that we’re all in something together is maybe kind of nice.
Action from individuals merges seamlessly into action by the collective. There’s no dividing line.
When we need to pay to “save the economy,” we find the money.
Pandemics can destroy the economy in like a day. So will climate disaster. There’s plenty of money for a Green New Deal. It will also be much cheaper than seriously and irreversibly degrading habitability.
It turns out we don’t need to fly after all. And the internet is more up to the task of remote collaboration than we thought.
The inequality that shot up over the last four decades makes our society dangerously fragile.
Don’t elect narcissistic reality show stars. Elect leaders who care about other people. (I wish more people would learn this.)
How important food is. How important farm and grocery store and delivery workers are.
Growing food is awesome. 
Kindness is awesome. Altruism builds resilience after trauma. Friends are precious.
We can die at any time. Life is a gift.
Clean air is really, really, really nice.
