The reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic proves we can take swift and significant action when we fear we are in danger. But far more are endangered by a mounting climate crisis. Will we learn the lessons of Covid-19 and act to prevent this disaster too, or simply return to 'normal' when the pandemic subside, dooming millions to death by environmental disaster?
I think one of the things that concerns me the most at the moment is what stories we are going to have to tell ourselves about why the climate & biodiversity crisis couldn’t be acted on urgently and drastically enough– now that our argument that we cannot take urgent and rapid steps has been so simply and quickly proven disproven by our response to coronavirus. What possible excuses will we have to dream up now that this argument, excuse or rationalisation has been removed?
I had the strangest experience today when I had to go out to buy some food; and given how our everyday existence now seems to have morphed into a dystopian dreamworld, to notice something and call it strange suggests that this was ‘really’ peculiar.
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