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by gramakri 2278 days ago
> How can we justify this sort of effort for Coronavirus, but not Climate Change, Obesity, Air Pollution

I do think we would react the same way to any of the other issues if you only the side effects were more 'immediate'. Things like climate change do not impact day to day life currently and especially not in western world. It's just too easy to ignore them right now.

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The irony of course that land use change drives both increasing zoonotic epidemics and climate change.

http://m.nautil.us/issue/83/intelligence/the-man-who-saw-the...