Why for COVID but Not for Climate?
This chapter is a reproduction of a previously published opinion piece examining the similarities of the challenges the global community faced during the COVID-19 crisis and the dynamics faced by catastrophic climate change trends. The chapter considers why the global community acted so quickly to address COVID-19 but seems not so pressed to tackle an even greater problem, irreversible climate change. It provides insights on the characteristics of these crises and the reactions of society to them and compares and contrasts these different but similar existential crises. The chapter also contrasts the views of the two authors, who are aged 52 and 20, and their different approaches to the solutions, which may offer insight and clues about how future generations will tackle and strive to resolve the climate crisis.