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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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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