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The Cover Story The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of Society. Now It's the Climate's Turn By Naina Bajekal and Elijah Wolfson In late November, when it was difficult for any of us to imagine life after COVID-19 lockdowns, a dozen members of TIME's editorial team joined a video call to talk about our climate coverage for 2021. In the previous nine months, the pandemic had reshaped all our lives—and our day jobs. While we had continued to cover climate change at TIME, our attention had been pulled toward the urgent health crisis, a global racial reckoning after the killing of George Floyd, and the U.S. presidential election. Yet the pandemic had underscored and deepened the inequalities in our society—inequalities that lie at the heart of how we should tackle the climate crisis in the post-COVID era. On that November call, senior correspondent Justin Worland argued that as the pandemic recedes, climate change would replace it as the dominant force touching every aspect of our lives. Senior correspondent Aryn Baker proposed a term for this phenomenon that would define the next decade: climatization. It's the word we've since used at TIME to talk about how climate is shaping everything from policy decisions to the cars we drive, whether you're in Beijing or Brussels. It's also the framework for our first climate special issue of 2021—Climate is Everything, which explores the ways the climate crisis is shaping where we live, how we work, what we study, the stories we tell. Aryn reported from Kenya's Rift Valley, where flooding has turned thousands of people into climate migrants; Justin visited South Carolina to look at the risks to the economy as Americans keep buying homes in places affected by wildfires and storms; reporter Ciara Nugent examined how climate is finding its way into unexpected corners of academia, from literature to law. We also wanted to bring together powerful voices to write about the lessons of the pandemic for the climate crisis. Among them are Judith Butler on the urgency of dismantling rigid forms of individuality; Katharine Wilkinson and Maria Alejandra Escalante on elevating the voices of women, and a short story by author Bryan Washington. For most of us, the past year has been deeply destabilizing, and uncertainty continues to permeate every aspect of our lives. There is one thing for sure, though: the climate crisis is already here. The good news is that the pandemic has—for all its devastation—opened up a path to rebuild the world in a way that is better, and greener. Read the Story » Share the cover story

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