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11 Julie Turkewitz and Manuela Andreoni, “The Amazon, Giver of Life, Unleashes the Pandemic,” The New York Times, July 25, 2020, accessed March 16, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/ interactive/2020/07/25/world/americas/coronavirusbrazil-amazon.html.
13 Turkewitz and Andreoni.
12 Manuela Andreoni, Ernesto Londoño, and Letícia Casado, “Brazil Health Workers May Have Spread Coronavirus to Indigenous People,” The New York Times, July 28, 2020, accessed March 16, 2021, https:// www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/world/americas/
14 Andreoni, Londoño, and Casado. 15 Shah. 16 Ibid. 17 Turkewitz and Andreoni. 18 Shah. 19 Turkewitz and Andreoni. 20 Shah.
How Covid Tells Us to Fight Climate Change By Daniel Bernstein
For years, health experts warned about the possibility of a pandemic that the world would not be prepared to handle. Since a viral outbreak seemed impossible to most, these scientists were not given attention.1 Had everyone known for certain of the terrors that Covid would bring, each country could have mobilized earlier to prevent death and chaos. The world faces this exact situation with climate change today; scientists warn of the terrible consequences climate change will bring in the coming decades. Despite these daunting predictions, relatively little is done to combat it. The Covid-19 pandemic must act as a warning sign for what can happen if the climate crisis is neglected any longer.
for those infected, as opposed to 1.8% for the United States.2 These numbers reflect Mexico’s impoverished public health system, which struggled to get ventilators and staff hospitals.3 Similarly, warming and other effects of climate change will hurt poorer countries the most. Average temperatures will increase more near the tropics, which are made up by some of the world’s least developed countries. Countries such as Zimbabwe and Guatemala, with GDPs per capita less than a 20th of the United States’, will become 15% hotter on average by 2100 if trends continue.4 This prediction poses catastrophic expectations for these populations made up of subsistence farmers, for whom droughts will become exponentially more common, and coastal residents, who Just as Covid especially hurt countries with ill-equipped health care systems, climate will experience more frequent and damaging change will affect vulnerable populations most. hurricanes. While scientists struggle to make specific predictions for decades in the future, While no country was adequately prepared to handle the spike of Covid cases, some were there is a general consensus in the scientific community that warming will dangerously disadvantaged more than others. Mexico, for exacerbate these areas’ weather related issues.5 example, saw a startling 9.0% mortality rate These countries will pay the price for climate
