COVID-19, Pandemics, and the "Dry Run" for the Fight against Climate Change

April 16, 2020

In this episode, we discuss the current COVID-19 pandemic and it's connections to climate change, and our how NOT prepared our society is...

Main Points:

  1. “We are the virus” is BS
  2. Corona will probably be worse for the environmental movement in the long run
  3. We can learn some things about communicating climate, and how to address public health disasters.
  4. We have an opportunity to make some essential changes
  5. Corona is the dress rehearsal for climate change and we are failing pretty miserably in the US.

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