I think you’re mistaken. No one started to care until Italy happened weeks after the WHO warnings. China locking down 11m people didn’t ring any alarm bells in

I think you’re mistaken. No one started to care until Italy happened weeks after the WHO warnings. China locking down 11m people didn’t ring any alarm bells in the west. Even when Italy happened not all countries reacted, instead thinking ‘oh we don’t have that problem we’re fine’ And then as cases did go up other countries for ‘creative’ with their handling - the UK totally gave up on testing in March and was secretly thinking to ‘ride it out’ and go for herd immunity. So the few examples where it was handled well (say Taiwan and South Korea) are irrelevant when considering the strength of the overall global response. Now, for dealing with melting ice sheets we need more than a majority of countries working together to prevent an event that will displace millions of people but right now the response is similar to how we responded to COVID - but imo the stakes are higher now.