Pandemic & Climate change | McKinsey
Fundamental similarities
Physical shocks
which then translate into an array of socioeconomics impacts.
Systemic
in that their direct manifestations and their knock-on effects propagate fast across an interconnected world.
Optimizing largely for the shorter-term performance of systems to ensuring equally their longer-term resiliency.
Healthcare systems, physical assets, infrastructure services, supply chains, and cities have all been largely designed to function within a very narrow band of conditions
Differences
Timescales
A global public-health crisis presents imminent, discrete, and directly discernable dangers, which we have been conditioned to respond to for our survival. The risks from climate change, by contrast, are gradual, cumulative, and often distributed dangers that manifest themselves in degrees and over time.
Correlation
pandemics are a case of contagion risk, while climate hazards present a case of accumulation risk. Contagion can produce perfectly correlated events on a global scale (even as we now witness), which can tax the entire system at once; accumulation gives rise to an increased likelihood of severe, contemporaneous but not directly correlated events that can reinforce one another
Priorities
Raise awareness of the impact
Build upon the mindset and behavioral shifts
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