Over the past several months, humanity has demonstrated an understandable obsession with the COVID-19 pandemic, as it has changed nearly everything. In four short months, a preventable disease has caused millions of people to suffer, many to die, and sent economies across the globe into serious recession – a truly regrettable human disaster.
Across the globe, humanity is now confronting twin planetary crises: COVID-19 and CLIMATE CHANGE. The first was sudden – but not unexpected; the second has been in the making for generations. As a two-front war, they are both scientific realities and threaten human existence. Together, they require global response. No country can deal with these two crises on its own.
The climate crisis is another rapidly advancing preventable human disaster. It mirrors the COVID-19 threat in the need for attuned government leadership and committed public cooperation to take immediate actions to avoid irreparable harm. Today, sea level rise, more frequent extreme weather, and desertification and ocean acidification are advancing at an alarming rate. Like our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we must “flatten and reduce the curve” of emissions, care for those harmed, and (as fast as possible) put in place sustainable, long-term solutions. Here again, international and local governments across the world are leading the way with building, transportation, industry, and renewable energy switch to provide a sustainable, carbon-free economy as soon as possible. Like the COVID-19 crisis, widespread public cooperation is essential to avoid the worst climate impacts.
In what way is Corona virus influencing the thinking on climate change?
The Corona virus may present an opportunity to more aggressively invest in the clean energy economy as a major component of the stimulus our economy so badly needs. We need to recover lost jobs as well as create new jobs to make up for recent losses, some of which will not return. What if, rather than investing in yesterday’s economic model and pollution emissions, we instead took a giant step towards the low carbon future we know is at the end of the long climate change tunnel. We can rebuild a ‘new economy’, allocate resources into the direction we know we must go, and resist the temptation to go backwards to business as usual.
How will the Corona virus situation affect responses to climate change in the long run?
We as the optimists of the clean energy propose that, collectively or individually, nations will take advantage of this economic downturn to make a big move to reduce carbon emissions from the stationary energy and transportation sectors. Economic transformation has been promoted for years, and some of the largest players in the corporate, financial, and insurance industries have taken bold steps towards a clean economy.
The wake-up call is here. Fortunately, we can respond to the two “silent” crises of COVID-19 and CLIMATE CHANGE by supporting government leaders at every level to act urgently to “reverse the curve” of COVID-19 transmission and carbon emissions to provide a safe, sustainable, carbon-free economy for all. We, LUME SOLAR ENERGY, country’s one of leading clean energy company, have our ear to the ground and will keep on working on evolving opportunities to get things back on track!
