By Tiffany Kemeklis
Coronavirus, covid-19, novel covid-19, novel coronavirus - it goes by many different names, but no doubt, you’ve heard of it.
And climate change: the growing topic many young people are working on to urge governments to turn their attention to focusing on the future of the next generation.
One easy example to spot how climate change will affect us is the Arctic permafrost. As the permafrost begins to melt, million year old pathogens frozen in the ice for what was supposed to be eternity, are now being released. These include diseases that we are not ready to fight yet, but the question that then rises is how to fight these diseases.
The coronavirus also poses a serious threat to long-term climate change action by compromising global investments in clean energy and weakening industry environmental goals to reduce emissions. The money that has previously been invested in climate change and to prevent global warming is now being put to take care of the virus.
But on a brighter note, the global emissions are at an all-time low, and satellite imagery shows little to no carbon dioxide in the air above China.
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