>>In an interview with World Economic Forum director Klaus Schwab for Time magazine, Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, argued that "to move to this new normal, whether you like the word or not, we have to anticipate and vaccinate ourselves, and then we have to learn the **lessons** of what we just went through." >>"I think the world we will live in will bear the stigmata of COVID," Lagarde said. "By that I mean we will not travel in the same way, in the same opportunistic and random way as we did. We probably won't socialize in the same way, so close to each other. And we will probably shift to better biodiversity protection and better climate protection than we would have had." >>Speaking at the 2020 G7 Speakers' Meeting, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, Speaker of the UK House of Commons, appeared to advocate COVID-19-style "restrictions on personal choice and lifestyle" to tackle climate change. >>**"No one could have imagined that we would put on masks so easily and that we would all be so compliant," Hoyle said. "Perhaps we should not underestimate the ability of people and communities to work together for the common good, if there is united and clear leadership."** >>"I'm ready for carbon rationing: are you?" tweeted Rosalind Readhead, an environmental activist who uses the alias @Privatecarfree. >>In Finland, where the government recently piloted "basic income," the city of Lahti has launched a voluntary carbon rationing scheme based on a smartphone app, CitiCap, in which users buy and sell carbon credits from each other.