Suspension of the world to fight Corona carbon emissions Down But True Air success looks like more action, not less

Runaway exponential growth. Unprecedented economic impact. deaths and untold suffering, especially among the poor and weak. All these superlatives are deployed descriptors unfortunately for APT COVID-19 crisis before us. They also apply to climate change. But carbon dioxide emissions has led to a maximum of a quarter, while the slowdown had COVID-19 to a temporary reduction in China, which is not worth celebrating a fact. Nothing in this current crisis seems far more successful. When it comes to climate change, the relentless rise in global temperatures is but a harbinger of what’s to come, and what is already happening around the world. Fire burning brighter, longer and more often. Tropical cyclones are strengthened. There are more extreme hot days cause immense costs in human lives and livelihood in the same way. now nothing warms these weather extremes, to the consequences of a planet from another one or two degrees Celsius. This, of course, is exactly why climate change is a difficult problem, wrap our minds and eventually the address. The worst is yet to come-decades or centuries hence. COVID-19 with respect to work in an extremely compressed calendar. Decades have days, weeks centuries. Political decisions from February-or lack of-influence life in this month. The recent decisions of the week affect this case Count week. People are dying today, and many others will do literally tomorrow. Stay tuned for our daily crown Click here newsletter This means that we should be looking for all key lessons and insights from decades of study climate changes that can make a difference now includes as an exponential growth in understanding the difficulty of dealing with uncertainty and how it takes the government to address policy, this type of problem. But even if the two crises are reflected in a different way with each other, the reverse idea we have of COVID-19 we should learn when it comes to the environment, it is not necessarily true. Our efforts to mitigate the transmission of diseases now as a shelter-in orders and limitations on travel without a future should be a guide to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. It would behoove someone else that most of the rest can be seen by us, for example, is looking with affection in this current time of social and economic malaise. If this were looked at how successful climate, I would not want to vote for him. I worry about climate change, because I care for people and the people at the moment of dying. Fortunately, the real climate success is such a thing as the current situation, even if emissions are below. mitigating emissions with success is the rapid development of new clean technologies, no collapse of the global supply chain. This means more investment, not less. The current $2.2 Katherine spending bill rightly focuses on immediate relief. But more exhaust will definitely necessary and imminent government stimulus around the world should lead the economy towards a more just and sustainable future. wishlists are correspondingly long. There is no single panacea, but there are some overriding principles such as to avoid further lock-in to high carbon inefficient system. this crisis as an excuse to relax rules for polluters is not only to step back towards the front of the air pollution. Polluted air compromised immune system. intact immune system, meanwhile, is an important protection against COVID-19 (This is in fact one of the few true silver lining of the pandemic to come. Reducing air pollution has immediate benefits for public health, although they are only effects temporary side effects of economic activity frozen), but not to stop the pollution response all activities; It is to find ways to live our lives that do not harm the earth. Read more: Global air pollution has dropped because of the coronavirus outbreak But experts warn that it is not a Silver Lining A great change of variable behavior. Even there, it is not fitting for us too rapid changes that occurred 19 COVID crisis, especially in the current. Yes, some of which are lucky stable salaried jobs must have demonstrated that you can have some productive work calls from makeshift home offices, while homeschooling children. Some may even have estimated COVID-19 as a pretext for a stopover at O’Hare longest client session must avoid. It might be good some of these more durable and useful changes. After all, a cross-country tour in New York and San Francisco emits about one ton of carbon dioxide per person. The one ton, which in turn melts about 3 square meters (32 square feet) of summer Arctic sea ice. Or modifications could easily backfire. It could have been regional sales this year in Cleveland fulfilling one of the “COVID victims.” In the next years? Barcelona or bust. Which way things might go is anyone’s guess. It ‘clear that government policy will play an important role. This policy should rather be guided by the facts of fear, and it should ensure that it proceeds from some of the all too predictable failure so far many countries worst-case scenarios-something transparent climate with COVID-19 to do. As COVID-19, climate change lives even discounting skills and basic social protection to dismantle. The fight against climate change is not easy. But a return to fact-based policy can at least make it possible. This pandemic should be a fundamental rethinking of the role of science and know how important competent leadership including global cooperation, and how the fate of the most vulnerable anywhere affects the fate of inspiring everyone everywhere. If so, its true benefits will last back for the climate and for the world of work. Gernot Wagner weather teaches economics at New York University, co-author of climate shocks, and writes the risky air column for Bloomberg Verde.
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