Earth Day's 50th Birthday

A pandemic is very bad for the human race, but for the earth it has been a good thing.  There has been less industry, less air and water pollution, the oil market is collapsing, and the atmosphere is maybe not as clean as it was 50 years ago, but it is far better than it has been in decades.
In the months ahead, as we go back out into public and ramp up our use of energy, what lessens can we take with us from this time when we stayed indoors and tried to save each other?  Clearly there are forces of evil that want it to all go back to the way it was.  Captains of industry, who are no doubt hunkered down in safe places, are trying very hard to get people back into the work place.  The meat packing industry is Iowa should be a cautionary tale where that is related.  We have had a huge surge in COVID+ cases in the last week related to not improving safety there, in hopes of not interrupting the food chain, but failing to see that the way we protect health care workers needs to apply to all essential industries.  The industries that plan best for the return to the workplace will fare the best.
And today, say a prayer for the survival of our home, the planet Earth.