This pandemic is bad, but the consequences of climate change will be worse.
here’s why climate change and coronavirus need similiar public responses.
COVID-19 has threatened our livelihood and, accordingly, triggered a wordwide crisis-mode response.
It seems climate change really does, as thatviral meme goes, need coronaviruss publicist.
And yet, amazingly, and truly terrifyingly, it is dwarfed by the threat of the climate emergency.
In short, why hasnt the fact that our house is on fire, well, caught fire?
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Human beings dont mobilize quickly unless the threats right in front of us.
share positive test results or are rushed to the hospital.
(And even that took some time: Scholars were screaming, This is a problem!
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There was a $2 trillion aid package put together very quickly for the coronavirus, he says.
Fauci) is mission critical.
So, we need to get back to where we once were on that score.
And the trajectory of climate change followsa similarly exponentially-accelerated curveas the pandemic.
Plus, this crisis has given us some blatant examples of the consequences of denying experts advice.
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Its a perfect model for what were facing with the climate, but larger.
This challenging moment in time has also proven how much we can accomplish when we come together.
Climate change is like thatit really is everybodys issue.
This moment of crisis has given us a chance to pause and reevaluate what really matters, too.
For example, how important is it for us to fly across the country for in-person meetings?
The solution to climate change ultimately is not going to be people sacrificing, says Dr. West.
Its policies that put a clean energy infrastructure in place.
In other words, our collective fate is in the hands of our governments.
But that doesnt, by any stretch, mean youre off the hook.
Its all about organizing, Dr. Klein Salamon says.
What we really need is a social movement that totally changes our politics and our government.
so you can change that, we all need to step up and take responsibility for that change.
This is part of why #SaferatHome has been such a success.)
So be the one out in the world sending signals to others that climate change is an emergency.
We have greatness within us as a human species, Logan says.
We have unimaginable creativity and beauty and joy, and it works when we actually get together.
This is our time to recognize that we are oneone planet, one human family with one common future.
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