Will cheap beef go the way of handshakes and junk mail, among the COVID-19 losses to celebrate rather than mourn? The pandemic is knocking this climate-killing food down a notch.
Sightline Institute executive director Alan Durning on the fossil fuel industry’s flagging hegemony and the impacts of #COVID-19: “Their economic power is crumbling. How soon will their political power follow?”
Junk mail, an advertising innovation of the 1970s, began its decline a decade ago in the last recession. The pandemic—because it is accelerating the migration from paper to the cloud—could be its bane.
Are there things we’ve dropped during our fight against COVID-19 that we can say goodbye to for good? In this series, I’ll speculate on what (I hope) won’t survive after the pandemic.
