The other pandemic

  Some catastrophes happen quickly and get urgent responses and others happen slower and get minimal response.   Think 9/11 for urgent response and climate change for the slow response.

The old story of boiling a frog comes to mind with our climate change response.  While we are urgently responding to the COVID-19 virus our continual neglect of responding to the deaths caused by climate change gets "put on the backburner."  Even worse is the Trump administration using the cover of the present pandemic to make the fight against climate change even harder.
It shouldn't be surprising that the same President who downplayed the virus threat with "happy talk" has also been skeptical of the need to respond to climate change.  His "raising the temperature of the water" we are all in these days shouldn't lull us into boiling with him and his supporters.

P.S.
     One silver lining of the lockdown is that our cities' air quality is cleaner than it has been in a long time.