- 06 Feb 2021 08:03
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55944570
Whilst the world wears paper masks, shuts down their entire economy and plays phyrric vaccine nationalism leading to poor nations mutating new variants, one question remains. What about climate change? Even the hardcore Covid hysteric doesn't seem interested in giving up their SUV and package foreign holiday any time soon.
But in reality Climate Change will kill significantly more people. If we had the same kind of drive as we did for making vaccines, we may even be carbon neutral by now. We certainly would have had hydrogen power whose current investment in R&D relies mainly in oil companies (so you can see why this seems stalled). And perhaps even battery cars whose rollout has only be hindered due to the lack of power points and costs of the batteries.
Nonetheless I suppose nobody cares about climate deaths. Those deaths aren't at home. A dry harvest in Ethiopia doesn't effect me right guys. Well it does eventually. Even the West seems to have more extreme weather events now than decades ago which will only get worse. Texas has been suffering from droughts for the past few years and the combination of dry and wet weather last year in the UK meant we had the terrible yields in wheat and other produce in 2020. Things are changing. And these changes are the next pandemic. Are we going to act late like we did with Covid or do something about it now? My hope is the former. I expect the latter.
Whilst the world wears paper masks, shuts down their entire economy and plays phyrric vaccine nationalism leading to poor nations mutating new variants, one question remains. What about climate change? Even the hardcore Covid hysteric doesn't seem interested in giving up their SUV and package foreign holiday any time soon.
But in reality Climate Change will kill significantly more people. If we had the same kind of drive as we did for making vaccines, we may even be carbon neutral by now. We certainly would have had hydrogen power whose current investment in R&D relies mainly in oil companies (so you can see why this seems stalled). And perhaps even battery cars whose rollout has only be hindered due to the lack of power points and costs of the batteries.
Nonetheless I suppose nobody cares about climate deaths. Those deaths aren't at home. A dry harvest in Ethiopia doesn't effect me right guys. Well it does eventually. Even the West seems to have more extreme weather events now than decades ago which will only get worse. Texas has been suffering from droughts for the past few years and the combination of dry and wet weather last year in the UK meant we had the terrible yields in wheat and other produce in 2020. Things are changing. And these changes are the next pandemic. Are we going to act late like we did with Covid or do something about it now? My hope is the former. I expect the latter.