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Climate One

Coping with COVID and Climate Fatigue

Climate One

Climate One

Social Sciences, News Commentary, Science, Earth Sciences, News

4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Since March 2020, the global community has grappled with an unprecedented pandemic. At first, most people were willing to do what it takes to keep themselves and others safe. Two years in, pretty much everyone feels exhausted by the effort and by the general anxiety of living with COVID. The global community simultaneously faces an even greater existential threat: climate change. For those fighting to stave off this slower-moving catastrophe, fatigue is a familiar feeling. What have we learned from two years of COVID disruption that can inform how we deal with climate fatigue?  Guests: David Wallace-Wells, Editor-At-Large, New York Magazine Britt Wray, Human and Planetary Health Fellow, Stanford University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:30.5

This is Climate 1. I'm Greg Dalton. Two years ago as COVID lockdowns were spreading, few people

0:36.6

understood how the pandemic would

0:38.2

upend their lives and the global economy. Now our eyes are open to the realities we long ignored.

0:45.1

The permanent structures that we took for granted, the stability, the security, the health

0:50.7

security, all of those things are much more tentative and fragile than we believed

0:55.4

was possible a couple of years ago.

0:58.0

When we are faced with such gigantic looming threats as global pandemics and climate catastrophe,

1:03.5

where do we look for answers?

1:05.4

I look at the survival of many communities that have been marginalized and oppressed, often intergenerationally,

1:12.4

when the future looked incredibly grim, right?

1:16.3

But there's practices of continuance and pulling together to have that kind of robust form of hope

1:22.5

to improve the conditions for one's own well-being.

1:25.3

Since March of 2020, people around the world have been dealing

1:28.3

with a pandemic more severe than most people knew was possible. At first, many were willing

1:34.2

to follow guidelines, social distance, and do what was asked to keep themselves and others safe.

1:40.7

Two years in, everyone feels exhausted by both the effort and the general anxiety of living with COVID.

1:47.9

Simultaneously, we face the even greater existential threat of climate disruption. For those fighting

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