Why climate change is a pandemic in slow motion (and what that can teach us) - The Corr... - 0 views
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the really dangerous thing about the coronavirus isn’t that the disease it causes can be very serious – it’s that it’s not all that serious for many people. The fact that many people who catch Covid-19 hardly have any symptoms has been a huge contributing factor in the spread of the virus.A similar problem applies to climate change: most of us simply experience so few of the consequences of the Earth heating up that we hardly even notice it – let alone feel any urgency to do something about it. A planetary temperature increase of 1.5C? For a lot of us, that seems like "just a minor flu" too.
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the incubation period of climate change is truly disastrous
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There’s no such thing as "far away" in a world where Wuhan is just five handshakes from Washington
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