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Originally Posted by octothorp
If it all goes smoothly at the inauguration, I'd love to see Biden extrapolate the security measures to the larger issues like the pandemic or even climate change. In a lot of cases, the right level of response is going to look like an overreaction in retrospect. Governments need to be proactive in tackling emergencies whenever possible.
If the US (and other nations) had done the Covid response right, it would have looked like an overreaction, because it would have been a massive response for a disease that results in a much smaller number of deaths.
If combatting climate change is done right, it looks like a massive mobilization and sacrifice, for a threat that never fully materializes (because that massive mobilization and sacrifice is the thing that neutralized the threat).
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For a pandemic, would you really want National Guard troops roaming around? I think you'd be hard pressed for majority approval in that situation. Police having the ability to enforce the law would go smoother, I would think.
To your second point, humanity may never realize the negative effects of climate change until it is too late to change anything (feedback loops). A similar effect occurred during the Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), where the global temp rose around 5 degrees C. Unfortunately, we are currently emitting multitudes higher of carbon than during PETM.