Lockdown lessons offer hope for climate change activists

The pandemic has made clear we will change our lifestyles in an emergency. For many in Europe, that realization offers hope for climate change.

Could there be a silver lining for climate change in the COVID-19 pandemic? Could the crisis have shaken people out of their complacency, and shown how radically we are ready to change our lifestyles when we know there is an emergency?

That is the hope expressed this week in a report by Climate Assembly UK, a citizens’ panel set up by Parliament in January to ponder...