I'm getting my piano tuned, embarrassingly, for the first time since covid. As it's getting tuned there's a sudden feeling of loss and all the things that we've already forgotten about as we go back to "normal".
Many lives were lost, or permanently disabled. For a beautiful few months though, at least for those of us not in healthcare, the world slowed down, the birds sang, fossil fuel consumption decreased. we discovered that the world outside of capitalism could be a beautiful thing. Then the engines could sit still no longer and we are back to over consumption, buying things nobody needs, flying all over the place, mining materials that will be landfilled in months.
There was a naive moment I thought covid could be the thing that jolts us out of the consumption that's killing us. But not even a virus that literally killed millions could stop the engines of capitalism.
What chance do we really have against #ClimateCrisis even something like covid could do nothing?
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