Just like with climate change, scientists had been warning the world about pandemics for a while now. Just like climate change, governments didn’t listen Working from home, isolated and with the country under lockdown, it’s difficult for me to focus on climate change rather than Covid-19.
So imagine how difficult it must be for the UN secretary general António Guterres, who has been pretty tireless in his efforts to get world governments to act on global warming for some years now.
But with an unprecedented pandemic raging, he too has had to tell nations to effectively forget about climate change’s more distant horizons for now.