Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency; What Would Nature Do? – review
Last modified on Mon 14 Dec 2020 14.48 EST Do you remember April? It seems like decades ago, but I remember, amid the dread and claustrophobia of lockdown, an unexpected thrum of hope. Traffic had stopped. No aeroplanes crossed the sky and no pollution clogged it. Where I live we heard ambulances carrying off our neighbours almost daily but we heard birdsong too, louder than ever before. A tiny spiky ball of glycoproteins and ribonucleic acid had done what a century of dedicated revolutionaries had been unable to. It had slowed the world economy to a crawl. It has been one of the defining acc...