May 2020
As Wendy Hollway discussed in her April and May Climate Psychology Alliance newsletters, it is difficult not to see the connection between the challenges of the virus and climate change issues.
While we are all still in a state of shock with the global lockdown and have only just begun to think about what it all means, we are becoming increasingly aware that fundamental changes are taking place at all levels and there is no going back to “normal life”.
At the same time there is a sense of relief for some of us that Coronavirus has broken through the unreality of our materialistic and high-consuming way of living. Who would have thought that a micro-entity could be responsible for confining the whole human race to their homes, leaving our cities deserted and quiet, emptying the skies of aircraft etc? It is impressive. What Greens have been campaigning about for decades, i.e. the reduction in global carbon emissions, the virus has achieved in a matter of weeks.