What we can learn from the parallels between the COVID-19 and the future climate change crises

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Authors

Rubén D. Manzanedo, Peter Manning

Abstract

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak pandemic is now a global crisis. It has caused 1.6+ million confirmed cases and 100 000+ deaths at the time of writing and triggered unprecedented preventative measures that have put a substantial portion of the global population under confinement, imposed isolation, and established ‘social distancing’ as a new global behavioral norm. The COVID-19 crisis has affected all aspects of everyday life and work, while also threatening the health of the global economy. This crisis offers also an unprecedented view of what the global climate crisis may look like. In fact, some of the parallels between the COVID-19 crisis and what we expect from the looming global climate emergency are remarkable. Reflecting upon the most challenging aspects of today’s crisis and how they compare with those expected from the climate change emergency may help us better prepare for the future.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/eg6hr

Subjects

Environmental Sciences, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Keywords

climate change, climate emergency, COVID-19

Dates

Published: 2020-04-11 22:29

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CC-By Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International