Bil Gates: \u201cPara 2060, el cambio clim\u00e1tico podr\u00eda ser tan mortal como el COVID-19, y para 2100 podr\u00eda ser cinco veces m\u00e1s mortal. Tenemos que dejar que la ciencia y la innovaci\u00f3n lideren el camino\u201d, dijo Gates, \u201cencontrando las soluciones necesarias, como fuentes m\u00e1s limpias de energ\u00eda y otras herramientas de cero carbono, que funcionen no s\u00f3lo para las potencias mundiales, sino tambi\u00e9n para los pa\u00edses m\u00e1s pobres a punto de ser golpeados m\u00e1s duro. Los efectos del cambio clim\u00e1tico casi con toda seguridad ser\u00e1n m\u00e1s duros que los COVID-19, y ser\u00e1n los peores para las personas que menos hicieron para causarlos”, continu\u00f3 Gates. “Los pa\u00edses que m\u00e1s contribuyen a este problema tienen la responsabilidad de tratar de resolverlo\u201d.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s Microsoft MSFT, +1.60%<\/a> co-founder Bill Gates urging the government to address climate change with the same \u201csense of urgency\u201d as it has the coronavirus crisis. If the proper measures aren\u2019t taken, he wrote in a blog post this week<\/a>, then the impact could be far more devastating.<\/p>\n Gates put the mortality rate of coronavirus at about 14 deaths per 100,000. By the end of the century, if the emissions growth rate stays its current course, he said we could be faced with an extra 73 deaths per 100,000 people due to rising global temperatures.<\/p>\n \u201cAs awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIf you want to understand the kind of damage that climate change will inflict, look at COVID-19 and spread the pain out over a much longer period of time. The loss of life and economic misery caused by this pandemic are on par with what will happen regularly if we do not eliminate the world\u2019s carbon emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n Gates projected that, within 20 years, the economic damage from climate change will be as bad as having the equivalent of a COVID-19 pandemic every decade.<\/p>\n \u201cThe key point is not that climate change will be disastrous,\u201d he said. \u201cThe key point is that, if we learn the lessons of COVID-19, we can approach climate change more informed about the consequences of inaction, and more prepared to save lives and prevent the worst possible outcome. The current global crisis can inform our response to the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n We need to let science and innovation lead the way, Gates said, finding the necessary solutions, such as cleaner sources of energy and other zero-carbon tools, that work not only for the global powers, but for poorer countries poised to get hit the hardest, as well.<\/p>\n \u201cThe effects of climate change will almost certainly be harsher than COVID-19\u2019s, and they will be the worst for the people who did the least to cause them,\u201d Gates continued. \u201cThe countries that are contributing the most to this problem have a responsibility to try to solve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n