Wikipedia now has a page collating examples from more than 35 countries of “xenophobia and racism related to the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic”: they range from taunts to outright assault. And they want things to be different.”That screaming buzzsaw noise in the background of this conversation is the sound of the climate crisis. Although Covid-19 is likely the biggest global crisis since the second world war, it is still dwarfed in the long term by climate change. There is no getting around the fact that the impacts of climate change are more gradual than those of Covid-19. But it is not unimaginable that the experience of Covid-19 could help us understand climate change differently.

Source: The Guardian March 31, 2020 05:01 UTC