Imagine this:
At the start of the pandemic, people with power say:
Well, it looks like we are going to have a stretch here when lots of us are going to be at home and we will be driving and flying less. We shall use this time to start making the obvious and necessary transition we need to make to greener energy.
(The problem with brokenness is it leads to more things being broken. A virtuous cycle does help you cycle toward virtue.)
The price of gas and inflation are worldwide problems brought on by the pandemic itself, the war in Ukraine, and the psychological roiling of a world that does not know how to adjust to paradigmatic changes.
Still, If we were now two years into the twenty or thirty-year global change that mother nature demands and which Covid offered us the opportunity to commence, we might be looking towards distant light on the horizon of hope rather than at each other wondering, as is the norm, what the hell we are doing. Or not doing at all.