Chemists in Ukraine revisited: Viktoriia Moskvina
Adapting to destruction that will take generations to fix
The situation hasn’t changed significantly since last year, though there are more preventive measures now, such as boarded-up windows and equipment wrapped in sandbags. What changed is that everyone has gotten used to it. We have learned not to build long-term plans. Our plans are for a few hours or a day at most because we don’t know what will happen in an hour or two.
To help us through the blackouts, we’ve acquired generators that can be connected to appliances and torches for lighting. People have purchased portable gas cookers. By nature, humans adapt quite quickly to new conditions, but these are not the conditions we want to get used to.