For more than two months now I have not left home, or almost.

Like me, millions of other people

around the world have also had to change their habits drastically and suddenly: we work or study at
home, we have to limit and justify our outings and meetings, we make long lines in front of
supermarkets.

In some countries, including Italy, the Covid-19 epidemic is the most serious event that has occurred
since the post-war period and with the deepest impact on everyone's lives. We haven't talked about
anything else for weeks. The situation is very serious: in several countries, infections continue to
increase, health systems are in great difficulty; many people have lost and will lose their jobs.

In some countries, however, the contagions are decreasing, and as the emergency subsides, the
question of the future is increasingly pressing. How will society and our lives change after the
epidemic is over?

The pandemic will have many consequences. Some seem inevitable, such as the economic crisis, the
increase in poverty and social inequalities, the worsening of pre-existing situations of hardship,
marginalization and loneliness. Others, however, are the subject of hypotheses and conjectures,
hopes or fears. What is certain is that the near future will be marked by the effects of this event on
daily life, the economy, society, education, work and much more.

Travel and travel will also suffer from the consequences of the pandemic. For those who move to
move to another country, perhaps running away from their own, like the thousands of migrants
trying to reach Europe, everything will be even more difficult than it already is.

Travel for tourism could suffer a drastic drop. In recent decades, world tourism has skyrocketed.
With low cost flights, millions of people have started to travel and many cities have partially changed
their economies due to this unprecedented influx of people. Now, there are those who say that for a
long time we will not go back to traveling as before. Both for health security reasons and because
most of us will not be able to afford it. The post coronavirus change

The epidemic alone will not solve the climate crisis. Indeed, it will produce other economic and social
crises. However, it is possible that this event will push us to finally start the radical transformations
that are necessary to avoid the immense risks of the environmental crisis. I don't think that changing
individual habits (buying sustainable products, not wasting, using bikes, etc.) can solve the problem.
The most important decisions, which concern the exploitation of resources and the ways of
production, must be made by governments, national and international. Individual habits and
choices, however, can exert an influence, even significant, on those decisions.

As in the pandemic, so in the environmental crisis, the different aspects of public life are never
separated. Politics, the economy, individual habits and social realities are always linked together.
Perhaps this event could help us finally take a different direction, precisely because it reminded us in
an abrupt and unequivocal way of the existence of this bond. Perhaps, therefore, whoever invites us,
with the end of the pandemic, not to return to the former normality and instead invent a new one is
right.