{"id":180269,"date":"2021-02-16T18:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/fighting-covid-easy-compared-to-climate-crisis\/"},"modified":"2021-02-16T18:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T15:58:47","slug":"fighting-covid-easy-compared-to-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/fighting-covid-easy-compared-to-climate-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"#Fighting COVID ‘easy’ compared to climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Fighting COVID ‘easy’ compared to climate crisis<\/strong>”
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Pandemic, schmandemic.<\/p>\n

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates thinks ending the coronavirus crisis will be a piece of cake compared to combating climate change.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the BBC<\/a>, the billionaire tech tycoon and philanthropist said the climate crisis will eventually cause \u201cfar more deaths\u201d than COVID-19, which he thinks will be beaten back by the vaccines that are being rolled out around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pandemic will come to an end because these amazing vaccines were invented in a year and now we\u2019re trying to scale them up and adopt them to the variants,\u201d Gates told the network. \u201cBut compared to climate change, that\u2019s very, very easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gates \u2014 the world\u2019s third-richest person with a fortune of $137 billion, according to Bloomberg \u2014 made the remark while promoting his new book, \u201cHow to Avoid a Climate Disaster,\u201d which was released Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He reportedly claimed<\/a> in the book that he\u2019s put more than $1 billion into efforts to achieve net zero carbon emissions, the goal of offsetting any carbon that\u2019s pumped into the air by absorbing an equivalent amount from the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has also pledged<\/a> more than $200 million to efforts to develop and distribute tests, treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, which has killed more than 2.4 million people around the world.<\/p>\n

Gates said achieving net zero emissions would be \u201cthe most amazing thing humanity has ever done\u201d if it\u2019s accomplished \u2014\u00a0but getting there is a monumental task that \u201crequires innovation across the entire physical economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said governments need to subsidize the development of environmentally friendly technologies even though they can be expensive and risky. \u201cWe need to have price signals to tell the private sector that we want green products,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m hopeful because young people care about natural ecosystems, they care about people\u2019s livelihoods,\u201d Gates told the BBC. \u201cBut it\u2019s not going to be easy and my optimism requires every year that this be a huge priority, and that with the innovations we get a bit lucky and some of them really do solve the hard areas.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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