Will covid-19 change how we address the climate emergency? 🔊

Can we conceptualise a response to the climate crisis from how the world has reacted and responded to covid-19? What can we take from the response to the pandemic to start a new response to the climate crisis? Is a systems change required moving forward as we continue to tackle the climate emergency? Oscar Perress spoke with Samuel Miller McDonald.

Samuel Miller McDonald is a doctoral student in climate and energy politics at Oxford University.

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