April 6: The Virus Asks For Out Of The Box Thinking This virus can not be tackled in any one country. It will have to be tackled simultaneously in every country. ....... This is the dress rehearsal for climate change. The coronavirus is forcing the world to do what needs to be done to fight climate change.
COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse. economic hardship not seen in many generations ........ the only way to avoid the worst possible climate outcomes is to accelerate our efforts now. ...... More than 600,000 people have died, and tens of millions are out of work. This April, car traffic was half what it was in April 2019. For months, air traffic virtually came to a halt. ......... “To understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period.” ............ The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what will happen regularly if we do not eliminate the world’s carbon emissions. .......... by 2060, climate change could be just as deadly as COVID-19, and by 2100 it could be five times as deadly. .......... In the next decade or two, the economic damage caused by climate change will likely be as bad as having a COVID-sized pandemic every ten years. ........... “If we learn the lessons of COVID-19, we can approach climate change more informed about the consequences of inaction.” ............ The current global crisis can inform our response to the next one. ...... In the next decade or two, the economic damage caused by climate change will likely be as bad as having a COVID-sized pandemic every ten years. And by the end of the century, it will be much worse if the world remains on its current emissions path. ......... Let science and innovation lead the way. ....... overall, the world should be using more energy, not less—as long as it is clean. ....... Any comprehensive response to climate change will have to tap into many different disciplines. Climate science tells us why we need to deal with this problem, but not how to deal with it. For that, we’ll need biology, chemistry, physics, political science, economics, engineering, and other sciences. .......... Make sure solutions work for poor countries too. ........ More than anywhere else, climate change will dramatically increase death rates in poor countries near or below the Equator, where the weather will get even hotter and more unpredictable. .......... the effects of climate change will almost certainly be harsher than COVID-19's, and they will be the worst for the people who did the least to cause them. ........ Start now. ....... Unlike the novel coronavirus, for which I think we’ll have a vaccine next year, there is no two-year fix for climate change. It will take decades to develop and deploy all the clean-energy inventions we need. ........... Health advocates said for years that a pandemic was virtually inevitable. The world did not do enough to prepare, and now we are trying to make up for lost time.
If Covid Is A Sneeze, Climate Catastrophe Is Full Blown Fever https://t.co/4GftHOmh3n @BillGates @gatesfoundation @melindagates #COVID19 #COVIDー19 #coronavirus #CoronavirusOutbreak #pandemic #lockdownextension
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) August 5, 2020
Fighting COVID-19 could cost 500 times as much as pandemic prevention measures https://t.co/DqLuX3BQCC pic.twitter.com/JFdV6ljGCC
— World Economic Forum (@wef) August 5, 2020
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