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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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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