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A pandemic wasn't able to unite humanity to fix it, why would a meteor be any different?
by addandsubtract 4y ago
A pandemic wasn't able to unite humanity to fix it, why would a meteor be any different?
- HPsquared 4y agoWith a pandemic the problem generally arrives in your country from another one - there's a major "blame game". Same with climate change. Meteor is different, the problem comes from outside.
- bartislartfast 4y agoWasn't it?
- inductive_magic 4y agoNo? At times, eu-internal borders were closed, for some time the fall of the european union was a serious concern. And that's within a political union. It was each country on their own.
- bartislartfast 4y agoEU internal borders being closed was agreed between countries in the EU though. It wasn't every country for themselves.
- inductive_magic 4y agoIn a pandemic, politicians have no incentive to give up on their autonomy as their electorate doesn't demand a global solution. If a meteor is about to wipe out everything, global interests are actually aligned. That's not the case in a pandemic.
- samus 4y agoThe pandemic doesn't have a clear fix. Lockdown, vaccinations, etc. only slowed it down. Even China's extreme measures to achieve zero COVID was not able to make it happen.
- islon 4y agoBecause the meteor would affect rich people.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoKung Flu was an internal threat since it was created by the chinese with american money.