Will we really change?

Most of Linkedin is filled with stories of how the pandemic will alter human behaviour and how we will change for the better. And this has been going on since the first lockdown was announced. As the lockdown extends it is fairly perceptible that people are itching to go back to their routines - though, we hope, they will go back with more compassion, more empathy and suchlike.

Somehow I am not sanguine. We are creatures of habit. And current habit have been drilled into us for the last few decades. Will we really change? I am not so sure. Yes, we will, for the immediate short term, a few days or a few weeks, but after that, slowly but surely, we will get back to our old Climate changing, consumerism driven worlds (or different types of course).

And yes, at an individual level change might happen, but a collective level, again, I doubt it. And yes, some micro behaviours might change, but other changes - no, they need far more than this to jolt us into a more sustainable existence.

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