🌈 3 Ways the Pandemic Made Things Better

Hey sometimes I can be positive, I'm not Last Week Tonight you guys.

It’s easy to get caught up in what’s going wrong. It’s a lot harder to think about what’s going right. Here are three examples of things we’re doing better:

Fossil fuel consumption hit a 30-year low

Welcome back to 1992! Because even though our population and industrial manufacturing has grown, the U.S. saw the greatest drop in fossil fuel consumption since records starting being kept in 1949. It’s not just the United States either, fossil fuel usage is starting to decline globally as well.

Most experts agree that gasoline consumption peaked in the years right before the pandemic. Then the pandemic hit and the next two years changed our relationship with gasoline. Lots of people sold their cars. Many moved back home to live with family. Almost a third gave up their commutes and transitioned permanently to working from home.

Meanwhile, the variety, availability, efficiency and affordability of electric cars kept increasing throughout the pandemic (even I finally bought one). Finally, ov…