Who Will Win the Fight for a Post-Coronavirus America? Rebecca Solnit

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Who Will Win the Fight for a Post-Coronavirus America?
By Rebecca Solnit
March 29, 2020

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Will this catastrophe bring back the social safety nets we’ve been gutting for 40 years? Will it make the case for universal health care? Will a universal basic income seem like a more reasonable idea? As consumer spending free-falls while whole populations stay home, will we redefine what is necessary and important and how people’s needs are met? Will addressing climate change seem different in a world where air travel and consumption of consumer goods and of fossil fuel has been significantly curtailed, a world in which it is more possible to imagine sweeping change because so much is already altered?

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