In thinking about how to approach these two issues - coronavirus and climate change/global warming - it strikes me that the risks they pose and the responses to them that we need to fashion actually run in parallel, (like tramlines, one might say, if keen to inject a vague sense of cohesion into a rambling blogpost). Climate change/global warming and the new coronavirus are each here to stay. In dealing with each of them, we have to first accept their presence, rather than fighting to eradicate them entirely, and then learn to adapt.
Monday, December 06, 2021
Some welcome common sense …
… zmkc: The Silence of the Trams.
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Covid-19 brings organ damage to all who catch it. It also brings early death to millions. We already knew how to defeat it, and we could have during the delta strain. The problem was misinformation about precautions not working and horrible leadership. It had to be a worldwide effort and this country, for one, failed the rest of humanity.
ReplyDeleteA brainless virus has defeated us, and we always knew how to defeat it. And here, this statement of yours is terribly defeatist -- wanting us to give into the slaughter, carry on as if defeat is a lifestyle. And I wonder how much has to do with not wanting to accept the death and suffering that is now all around us, walking through the valley of the shadow of death, and making a religion of pretending it is not so bad.
“Covid-19 brings organ damage to all who catch it“?
ReplyDeleteApologies - I have now idea why that has appeared three times.
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