Column: Reduced demand for oil could be the coronavirus’ silver lining

BANGOR DAILY NEWS • May 4, 2020

People who look for silver linings (aka optimists) think that the coronavirus might be the inflection point where we start getting serious about our relationship with the planet. Just in time we are being taught humility and perspective, the optimists say. Even better, some of the things we urgently needed to do are now happening without our help. The planet is now hot enough to produce several major local calamities every year, so we’ll quickly get motivated to worry about global heating once the current emergency is past. Although probably not fast enough to save us from having to resort to geoengineering by the 2030s. ~ Gwynne Dyer