Stephen C. Bannister: Our Faustian bargain with fossil fuels

Most of us have enjoyed the much cleaner air since the great COVID-19 shutdown-caused economic collapse. Everything damaging that we normally dump into our common airshed is reduced — carbon dioxide that increases climate warming and the pollutant precursors that cause regional haze we notice as bad air quality and bad health outcomes — and the result has been cleaner air for all to enjoy.But this win has been accompanied by considerable social and commercial costs. The pandemic has