Economy: Clean energy can help us recover

I’ve found a couple takeaways from the recent daily toll of coronavirus cases and deaths:

Bad things can happen to us, and our ideological perspectives can’t change the science of the physical world. And there is starting to be a glimmer of this pandemic coming to an end – at least for a time.

As we recover, attention to our crumbling and outdated infrastructure is being offered as a way to get the economy going again.

This is a good idea – and an opportunity to work on replacing CO2-polluting electricity generation and transportation with clean-energy infrastructure.

Perhaps we’ll have the political will to be proactive in addressing our climate change slow-motion train wreck, given our experience with COVID-19.

This story was originally published April 18, 2020 at 4:14 PM with the headline "Economy: Clean energy can help us recover."