The things to me that makes 2020 different than other moments of national and global crisis are:

1) the scale of the threats
2) the absolute ability we have to mitigate those threats
3) our inability to actually do so for political or societal reasons
the climate crisis in particular operates on a scale that is apocalyptic, and yet we mostly understand it, we already have the technologies to mitigate its impact, and we just ... aren't ... doing it
covid, nasty as it is, is much less in scale, but again we understand how viruses work and how it spread and we just .. aren't ... doing the things we need to do.
there have been so many moments of intense crisis throughout human history, but I can think of nothing compared to a world on fire and oceans rising, happening with the full knowledge and understanding of humanity, and yet no action.
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