But where with an epidemic, you can see large numbers of people getting sick over a period of weeks, the time scale of climate change is decades. The consequences of political decisions are not felt by the same generation that made them, let alone the same politicians. Thus, doom
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Oh crap, I forgot I have a mostly American audience who needs optimism. So, uh, if we can come together to fight this pandemic, it will create a political foundation we can use to address the harder, longer-term transnational problem of climate change. And then all will be OK!
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There's also a chance that they are less of a problem than the scientific consensus is pegging them at, and the actions taken to combat them will shut down the economy.
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But we can’t fix both at once
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The right pandemic will fix climate change
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I wish some people would get their act together and be sensible and think of others at this time - the other day my mother and other shoppers ended up backing away very quickly from a woman and young child in the supermarket. The child was coughing and spluttering so no wonder
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people were anxious. The mother was embarassed (so she should have been plus ashamed) and explained that her child had come down with the cough before the first cases of coronavirus. We have to take her word for it. Didn't occur to her at this critical time that it might be a
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good idea to have ordered her shopping online. Whilst we are fighting the virus there should be a law giving shops the right to ask someone to leave if they are not bothering to conceal their coughing etc from others. By contrast on the same day I was in a cafe and a person
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next to me coughed but did so into their paper napkin. The contrasts! Take care everyone. xxx
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