Confronting coronavirus, curbing climate change

How much can the world do when we take a threat seriously! If China and South Korea can arrest the spread of COVID-19, curbing climate change is surely possible.

Let’s compare humanity’s response to the coronavirus to its response to climate change. The coronavirus generates fear of a clear and present danger, activates our survival instinct, and mobilizes people to act. Coronavirus is the terrorist equivalent of nature. Why? Because it generates an acute fear that it could happen to me, and it could happen right away. And only two times in living memory have airlines mostly shut down and economies slowed down due to a threat. One was after 9/11, and the other is now. Read More…