What does the COVID 19 tell us about the climate breakdown and what should we do about it? The
economic and social impact of the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Governments have
spoken of being at war and find themselves forced to seek new powers in order to maintain
social order and prevent the spread of the virus. This is often exercised with the notion that
we will return to normal as soon as we can. What if that is not possible? Secondly if the
state can mobilize itself in the face of an invisible foe like this pandemic it should also be
able to confront visible dangers such as climate destruction with equal force. In Corona
Climate Chronic Emergency leading environmental thinker Andreas Malm demands that this
war-footing state should be applied on a permanent basis to the ongoing climate front line. He
offers proposals on how the climate movement should use this present emergency to make that
case. There can be no excuse for inaction any longer.
