What does the response to COVID-19 tell us about our ability to cope with climate change?

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Question: What does the response to COVID-19 tell us about our ability to cope with climate change?
Position‹2 of 3›: Mankind will never be able to defeat climate change

This position holds that the COVID-19 response shows mankind will never defeat climate change. It argues the pandemic exposed our stubbornness and ignorance, and that fake news and partisan politics will doom efforts to prevent permanent environmental damage.

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Fake news, ignorance, and bipartisan politics will make defeating COVID-19 and climate change impossible.
In some countries, believing that COVID-19 exists and is not a hoax is, in itself, a political opinion. Fake news and ignorance is rampant, and people's refusal to practice social distancing or believe that the virus is a real threat does not bode well for how seriously they'll take climate change.