The coronavirus pandemic proves the world can 'act with necessary force' when faced with a global emergency, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg says.
The coronavirus pandemic proves the world can"act with necessary force" when faced with a global emergency, teen climate activist Greta Thunberg says.
Speaking on Sweden's Sveriges Radio, Thunberg said that from a climate perspective there was nothing positive about the coronavirus crisis as changes to daily life had"extremely little similarity" with the extreme action required to deal with climate change."The corona tragedy of course has no long-term positive effect on the climate apart from one thing only, namely the insights into how you should perceive and treat an emergency," she said.
Greta Thunberg urges public to listen to the experts 01:24"Those words and this treatment of a crisis opens up a whole new dimension because you see every year at least 7 million people die from illnesses related to air pollution," said Thunberg, citing the World Health Organization."Those are apparently peoples whose lives we can put a price on," she added."Since they died from the wrong causes and in the wrong parts of the world.
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