‘Pandemic narratives’ are key to understanding the policy responses of European governments to Covid-19

political leaders formulate a storyline providing a convincing account of what is happening, why it is happening, what can/should be done about it, how and by whom. 

The Climate Change Time Bomb | NYT The Interpreter

 "A billion-acre ecological time bomb may be about to go off — if it hasn’t already — converting much of the world’s oxygen into climate-heating carbon dioxide."