The public messaging around coronavirus is "your behavior today determines the news two weeks from now." Notice how psychologically hard it is to link cause and effect with just that two week delay. Climate change poses a similar political problem, but the delay is decades long
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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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I've said it before, I'll say it again: climate change won't be taken seriously until the first major world city is lost to it. What this means for COVID I am not sure.
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The timescale for Covid-19 is short enough to affect the outcome of the next election. Climate change is still in the timescale "another guy's problem".
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