Det är väl känt att kriser förändrar tänkesätt och värderingar. Här rapporterar flera att de ser saker på ett annat sätt sedan pandemin började. Man ser att det viktiga är att värna människor, människors hälsa och vår miljö.
Vi ser hur människor blir svårt sjuka och dör i pandemin. Men när vi ändrar vårt beteende, så hindrar vi spridningen och påverkar . Vi ser hur viktig vård och omsorg är. Det väcker också uppmärksamhet för klimatkrisen, som är ett ännu större hot.
Nu har vi ännu en värmebölja i Sverige. Fram till 2018 var sånt här klimat i Sverige osannolikt för de flesta.
Detta visar att vi måste prioritera människor, natur och miljö mycket, mycket mer! Det är grundläggande förutsättningar för en hållbar framtid.
Has Covid-19 brought us closer to tackling climate change?
“I was so worried about the dangers of going too far,” says Sally Capp, Lord Mayor of Melbourne, when she now thinks about her pre-pandemic leadership on the environment. The leader of Australia’s second most populated city believes Covid-19 has helped her clarify what’s important to her as an individual and as mayor. “I have become much more resolute about my values, prioritising humanity and protecting the environment, so they can play a larger role in driving my agenda.”
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There is indeed a large movement to “build back better” from the pandemic in a way that confronts the climate crisis. Attitudes are changing. But however good our intentions as individuals, it will take determined moves by industry, national and local government to modify the environment so that we can all build on any attitude changes. Has the pandemic helped us make the changes needed to tackle the environmental crisis?
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Many people across the world retreated into radically different lives during the lockdown. The desire to stay safe created some dramatic mass behaviour changes that some academics have likened to a massive experiment.
When you are spending time at home, working there or because you’ve lost your job or been furloughed, you could see for the first time how much energy you are using or how much food you are throwing away – Elise Amel
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Elise Amel, a professor in psychology at the University of St Thomas in St Paul and Minneapolis, points out that when people can see the impact they cause – when the invisible becomes visible – they behave differently.
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There has always been a huge focus on behaviour change when it comes to global warming mitigation, but now the public is demanding that industry and government pull their weight – Jessica Long
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200624-has-covid-19-brought-us-closer-to-stopping-climate-change