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Letter: Editor's pick - Lessons can be learned from the covid-19 crisis (2)

Published 8 April 2020

From David Holdsworth, Settle, Cumbria, UK

Perhaps the readiness to adopt big lifestyle changes in the face of covid-19 can prompt the realisation that the climate threat isn’t going to go away unless we take similar drastic action. Countries that tried to go on with business as usual during the outbreak seem to be having worse outcomes than those that were decisive and took swift, large-scale action.

Issue no. 3277 published 11 April 2020

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