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The coronavirus was the trial run for climate change.

If you thought in February that it wasn’t a big deal, if you listened to folks who said “the cases will go to zero soon”, well, perhaps you should check your epistemology and listen to folks who know what they are talking about.

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On the other hand back in January I thought many millions would have died by now, based on Gabriel leung's talks on coronavirus. I never bought into climate alarmism.

What is bothering me now, is that the coronavirus response provides damning evidence against our ability to act on climate change, but it is also stealing our time to act.

The coronoavirus economic impact is multiples of the projected economic impact of "business as usual" scenarios with respect to climate change. I found the whole process quite heartening actually.

I think it's maybe slowing it down. The more we lockdown, the less emissions we're using. It's kind of a win/win...except for the economic fallout.

Reducing air pollution actually accellerates external input leading to global warming. Also, pollution is back higher than before in China "after" Corona. Latest development is rising infection rates in countries opening up. There's a balancing act how much we "open up", vs what measures have most impact. The last part should be solvable.

Well, It may be that the only solution to the climate problem is for all the people to die.

What's happening now in American politics (and lots of places) must be the trial run for attempting to address this problem.

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