The coronavirus pandemic has brought urgency to the defining political question of our age: how to distribute risk. Coronavirus UK live news: Gove not ruling out tighter lockdown as supermarkets police in-store distancing Read moreThe demographics are also completely different. Unlike the climate crisis, the virus predominantly threatens the elderly – the right’s core support group – rather than millennials. For the right, this makes the pandemic a greater political threat than the climate crisis has ever been. We’ll need to invest in natural life-supporting systems such as a stable climate, fresh air and clean water.

Source: The Guardian March 24, 2020 11:03 UTC