And the seas shall rise and the arctic shall melt and the flames shall come upon thee — that is a best-case scenario. All of that was overshadowed by the warnings of worsening war, and plague, and natural disaster. The cases of climate change and the pandemic, massive collective action problems on different time scales, seem in some ways less complicated. You could view the decades of inaction on climate as a preview of what was going to happen in the pandemic. How the pandemic continues to play out may be a preview of what could happen in decades to come as we suffer a changing climate.

Source: thestar August 13, 2021 22:41 UTC