Climate One

Coping with COVID and Climate Fatigue


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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

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