We are the proverbial boiling frog. Coronavirus has shown us that the world can act swiftly and forcefully to alter behaviors when we know there is a threat out

We are the proverbial boiling frog. Coronavirus has shown us that the world can act swiftly and forcefully to alter behaviors when we know there is a threat out there even if it is invisible. Climate change being gradual, diffuse , occasional and unpredictable in its immediate effects means that it’s easy to push off to tomorrow. If every beach condo tower around the world started falling to the ground at a predictable pace and we had a condo destruction tracker at the top of the news every night - we might get somewhere. But the way it is now it seems like an explainable one off situation.