In purely objective terms, the coronavirus outbreak and climate change could not be more different. Yet the politics of the two issues are eerily similar.

First, both issues are unnecessarily politicized. There is no reason why the two issues should be divided across the lines of right and left, or Republican and Democrat. There is no reason why news outlets should be opinionated when reporting on natural phenomena. Yet those who say we are about to die from climate change also say that we are in nothing less than the coronavirus apocalypse.