[MCN] Why don’t we treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as coronavirus?

[Lance Olsen]

Why don’t we treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as coronavirus? <https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEHxKFqVioHgni-aBbAYZmDYqFggEKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCTC9vBU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
No Cobra meetings, no sombre speeches, yet the consequences of runaway global heating are catastrophic, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones.
The Guardian <https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBggKMJeqezDfswk?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen>
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“The factor that best explained variation in extinction risk was the level of future climate change. The future global extinction risk from climate change is predicted not only to increase but to accelerate as global temperatures rise.”

Mark C. Urban. Accelerating extinction risk from climate change.

SCIENCE 1 MAY 2015 • VOL 348 ISSUE 6234
<<https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/348/6234/571.full.pdf>>

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