CLIMATE CRISIS LESSONS FROM CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC (4)
Iâm definitely not the first person to see a similarity between the worldâs efforts to combat Coronavirus (CV) with the fight against Climate Change (CC). There are hundreds of articles about the link. What is interesting to me though is in the similarity of the arguments between CC deniers & what Iâll call CV deniers. Have you noticed how the arguments made by CV deniers is EXACTLY the same as with CC deniers? Itâs the 5 stages of denialism - "itâs not happening", "itâs not our fault", "itâs not that bad", "itâs too expensive to fix" & lastly "itâs too late!" You could see these arguments play out in the White House âbriefingsâ of Donald Trump & on Fox News. "Itâs a hoax", "itâs from China", "itâs no worse than the flu", "the cost canât be worse than the cure" & "let the old people die for the economy!" The difference between CV & CC is that itâs taken decades to work through these stages with the climate, but itâs taken only weeks to go through them with Covid-19. Itâs like CC denialism on steroids. But what do we learn from this (apart from the fact that it happens)? Itâs clearly a pattern, a way of thinking, &, for me, itâs about understanding that there are undoubtedly a lot of people who will NEVER understand CC, they will ALWAYS be in a state of denial. We have to move away from trying to get 100% unanimity on CC & focus on WHAT WE CAN DO NOW. 5 coming soon :-)âŚ
















