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Policy and climate change – The daily blog of behavioral and cognitive economics

How are Covid-19 and climate change similar and what can we do from behavioral economics to fight against them?

If Covid-19 has achieved anything, it has been to expose that our globalized society is very fragile and vulnerable to impacts. This has raised strong concerns about the sustainability of our way of life. It has also revealed how population growth, urbanization, globalization, and mass travel result in a complex reality, with impacts that are global in scope. On many occasions, comparative analysis are frequently drawn between Covid-19 and climate change due to the magnitude of their effects. And, in fact, they are much more similar phenomena than they may seem. For example, both disproportionately affect disadvantaged communities, thus intensifying global inequalities. ….[READ]

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