Scientists ignored, government watchdogs gutted, corporate profits prioritized. Sound familiar?
The world is collectively enduring a terrible test, and none of us will be the same after this. But unlike the climate crisis, this pandemic will end. In about a year and half, by most estimates, we will know the full extent of the destruction of the coronavirus. We won’t all take the same lessons from it, of course, especially considering our polarized politics, but hopefully enough people will learn enough of the right lessons.
We have all become witnesses to the climate crisis in action in the past few years. “Storms of the century” have ravaged New York, Puerto Rico, Florida, and Texas. Wildfires in California have destroyed entire towns in minutes. Historic floods crippled the Midwest. Millions of people will become climate refugees in the coming decades, and an untold numberFor decades, scientists warned of the perils of climate change and yet we didn’t act.
In the face of the coronavirus and the climate crisis, any ideology that worships profit above all else, that trumpets individualism above the common good
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