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We, as a society, are resilient and will be able to apply the lessons COVID-19 has taught us to tackling the climate change crisis
The pandemic has proven that there is still hope. We, as a society, are taking what we've learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and can apply those lessons to our fight against climate change.
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- People now have a better understanding of the concept of exponential growth.COVID-19 has spread across the globe exponentially, similar to how climate change is slowly worsening. The pandemic is helping people conceptualize and understand how slow burning crises can quickly get out of control.
- People are beginning to notice how global crises compound social inequality and are now more likely to become involved in local government and climate change activism.Climate change, in its beginning stages, harms the poor and people who live in developing countries the most. People in the United States or Europe, who are quite privileged and have not yet faced the catastrophic affects of climate change, are being impacted by COVID-19 and are now more aware of how social inequality is compounded by global emergencies.