On Earth Day, don’t celebrate pollution cuts from coronavirus

Published April 22, 2020 4:00am ET



This Earth Day, the pollution reduction caused by the coronavirus pandemic is nothing to celebrate.

Some radical environmentalists are glorifying the suffering and death caused by the pandemic, calling the coronavirus the “cure” for what plagues the planet — us. Even Pope Francis suggested the virus might be nature’s attempt to strike back at humanity: “Nature never forgives.”

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