The ubiquity of news coverage on the cornavirus has offered the fossil fuel industry an opening no one could have anticipated: the opportunity to claim that our civilization is too busy to worry about anything else. They’re using this to try to convince lawmakers to delay consideration of things like the “Green New Deal,” or even less aggressive plans in energy efficiency, rooftop solar, electric transportation, and the like.
Of course, environmentalists are pushing back on this, with phrases like, “I’m pretty sure we can walk and chew gum at the same time.”
