This cartoon might be a little subversive – is Mother Nature responsible for the Pandemic? Is she feeling bad about it? But now she’s thinking that there are some silver linings so maybe all the suffering won’t be for nothing? Daily Drawing April 20th:

Roar Radically: UBC’s Bill Rees, Professor Emeritus of human ecology and ecological economics at UBC, talks about Not “Roaring back” to our pathological, polluting and wasteful “normal” economy once we make our way through the global pandemic (Times Colonist, April 19, 2020). Instead, actually seeing how phenomenally the environment responds to decreased human activity – once we take our feet off the gas pedal so to speak – should make us use this terrible time to help plan a comeback that, as Dr. Rees puts it, “repairs the social and ecological harm the current system creates.” It’s Earth Day – here’s hoping.

Best of 100
A few more days and I’ll have reached 100 consecutive Daily Drawings! My fellow Daily Drawer has already reached that goal. So, what we’re going to do is each select our 10 favourites and post them on a separate gallery page on my site in the next week or so. Stay tuned!