Delay is deadly: what Covid-19 tells us about tackling the climate crisis | Jonathan Watts
by Jonathan Watts from on (#515HV)
Rightwing governments have denied the problem and been slow to act. With coronavirus and the climate, this costs lives
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought urgency to the defining political question of our age: how to distribute risk. As with the climate crisis, neoliberal capitalism is proving particularly ill-suited to this.
Like global warming, but in close-up and fast-forward, the Covid-19 outbreak shows how lives are lost or saved depending on a government's propensity to acknowledge risk, act rapidly to contain it, and share the consequences.
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