This week we'll also be asking people to believe that their behavior is helping even in the face of rapidly worsening news. Again, climate change (if we were able to take concerted action) would have the same dynamics, a worsening present combined with taking extreme measures
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Watching the response and the developing politics around coronavirus will give us insight into whether the climate change problem (which temporally separates consequences from political decisionmakers) is at all tractable. On the bright side, the depression will reduce emissions!
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Having most economic activity just stop without warning is also a useful natural experiment that would have been politically impossible to run in other circumstances. Maybe we'll learn things from it that will persuade us to change some things about the way we structure the world
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Personal risk versus risk to society. A car accident is bad for you, but low risk for society. Climate change is low personal risk, but devastating for society. Our monkey brains are only wired for short term self preservation. The rest is too abstract. Same with this bug.
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