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Bill Gates, 65, has recently commented on business mogul and billionaire how easy it will be to end the corona pandemic, which is currently ravaging the world, compared to stopping climate change.
The BBC interviewed Gates on Monday night Norwegian time.
“Solving climate change will be the most incredible thing humanity has ever done,” Bill Gates told the BBC, before comparing the problem of ending the coronavirus.
– It’s very, very simple, says the 65-year-old.
Photo: Bill Gates will publish a new book this week. REUTERS / Arnd Wiegmann
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It tries to clarify how difficult the climate challenges humans face are and that it is important not to underestimate the challenge that everyone faces.
– We have never experienced a change like the one we are talking about in the next 30 years. There is no precedent for this, says Gates.
Gates recently addressed how to prevent climate change in his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster.” The book is expected to be published on February 16.
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In the book, he writes, among other things, that there are 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases that are added to the atmosphere each year. He believes that the numbers should be reduced to zero.
According to the BBC, Gates’ book focuses on how new technologies and renewable energy can help prevent climate emissions in the future.
Want higher prices
He is aware that state leaders must initiate a process in the near future if climate change is to be stopped. The Microsoft founder believes that everyone should understand the true price of using fossil fuels.
– Right now you don’t see the pain you cause when you release carbon dioxide. We should point out that we want green products with the help of higher prices, Gates believes.
He says that everyone should be aware of how to change climate emissions as individuals.
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– Century virus
When the coronavirus broke out in earnest last year, Gates called on rich countries to help poor countries fight the virus.
He believes that helping poor countries in Africa and South Asia will benefit everyone because it will slow down the pandemic infection.
The foundation that he runs with his wife Melinda, announced more than a year ago that they will give 100 million dollars (about 945 million crowns) to fight the coronavirus.
– Covid-19 has largely emerged as the virus of the century that concerns us. I hope it doesn’t get too bad, but we have to assume it will be until we know otherwise, Gates wrote at the time in The New England Journal of Medicine.
He believes there are two reasons why the coronavirus poses such a significant threat.
– First of all, it can kill both healthy adults and elderly people with health problems. The virus is much more serious than seasonal flu and we can place it between the 1957 flu pandemic and the 1918 flu pandemic, Gates writes.
The Asian disease in 1957 had a death rate of 0.6 percent and killed, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), two million people.
An estimated one-third of the world’s population was infected with the Spanish flu, which raged between 1918 and 1920. It had a 2 percent death rate and more than 50 million people are said to have lost their lives.
