> Just look at say Japan after the tsunami which not only killed people but also destroyed a lot of critical infrastructure.
Ok, lets; because I think the one positive thing that may come out of all of this is that we act with an acute understanding that our current system on this Planet is precarious, unsustainable, and we cannot just go back to it.
Which is what Japan did, and continues to do: they have not addressed the massive out-pour of Nuclear run-off into the Pacific, they have neglected to address the massive displaced population of Fukushima, their contamination programs are insufficient and the testing for their food is still not wide-spread nor taken seriously. They haven't completely phased out Nuclear Energy after all of this, and continue with a political lobbyist perspective whether they will or won't turn them back on.
All while still trying to continue to get the Olympic games to take place; no, I'd say Japan's Government reaction is exactly what we shouldn't be following, its exactly what we need to avoid in order to ensure this doesn't take place.
Wet-Markets re-emerging in China, for example, would be following Japan: simply continuing something because it served some economic function, but carried large consequences and still doing it anyway is not what we should strive for. Those Wet-Markets are thought to be significant contributors to SARS and now CoVid19.
If anything risk-management needs to be a bigger contributor to how we act moving forward; as I see ME and Russia oil refiners play chicken with one another, I wonder if this is what will what finally transitions us to EV in earnest. Continuing to rely on such suicidal actors to carry out best practices for something so critical has to be seen for the folly that it is.
I'm admittedly a petrolhead, but a part of me always knew this was coming and I fully embraced it occurring, I just wished we would have had the good sense for it to be a gradual transition--as it was appearing to be with many Manufactures pushing for EV models being a large part of their lineup based on purchases and legislation requirements--rather than an abrupt shock to the system that made us realize where our priorities should be when thinking about sustainable mass-transport.
The same sentiment goes for things like how UBI, Work From Home and Online Learning being the way many jobs and schools function in order to reduce Greenhouse emissions and help curb climate change. This can be an opportunity in disguise if we have the foresight to see it as one and act as a Planetary Species understanding that our very survival is at stake rather than the petulant children and a voracious appetite for 'what we want, at all costs,' as we've been thus far.
> Economies are surprisingly resilient.
I want to believe in anti-fragile economic models, too; but I've come to the realization that however persuasive intellectually as that argument may be it isn't absolute when the very Environment you're operating in cannot carry on with the practices that make that doctrine possible at scale.