Two Essays on Climate & COVID-19

It's easy to miss the connections, but as this website goes live in summer 2020, the world has been undergoing a fast-forwarded version of climate devastation in the form of COVID-19. Many of the same psychological and cultural patterns are at work: anxiety and grief, information exhaustion, misinformation, fear-mongering, and more. Sometimes it can help in both cases to step back and listen to wordsmiths who take science seriously. Here are some wise words about these crises from two very different world-builders, even if they share a last name (no relation).