Does COVID Have A Silver Lining For Climate?

Is the ‘cleaner air’ argument worth the agony of the pandemic?

“It takes two years to learn how to speak and sixty to learn how to keep quiet.” — Ernest Hemmingway

As the COVID-19 crisis has played out, I’ve been watching with increasing unease how some in the climate action community are uncomfortably close to cheerleading for the pandemic because of the unintended consequences of reduced global carbon emissions.