One can be as tolerant as possible of differing opinions, but also recognize that the prevalence of those opinions will make it impossible to avert ecological catastrophe. This can be an extremely depressing thought — we’ll get through COVID, but we’re still stuffed since people will want to get back to an unsustainable illusion of normalcy.

Maybe the Earth is really a large organism and COVID is its antibody against a virus. I wish that COVID could teach us to act less like a virus and more like a symbiote.