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Climate change is like Ebola – World Bank chief (“…inaction is literally killing people…”)
http://www.rtcc.org/2014/10/13/climate-change-is-like-ebola-world-bank-chief/[font face=Serif][font size=5]Climate change is like Ebola – World Bank chief[/font]
Last updated on 13 October 2014, 11:24 am
[font size=4]Slow response to both climate change and Ebola is killing people, warns Jim Yong Kim[/font]
[font size=3]By Sophie Yeo
World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim has compared climate change to Ebola, suggesting that inaction on both is “killing people”.
Speaking at the World Bank’s annual meeting with the International Monetary Fund, Kim said that the Bank’s work on climate change was informing its response to the deadly disease, which has killed over 4,000 people mainly in West Africa.
“Ebola and climate change have a few things in common. Most importantly, we are running out of time to find solutions to both,” he said.
“Also, until very recently, the plans to fight them were either non-existent or inadequate. And, inaction is literally killing people – one because of the rapid spread of a deadly virus, the other from the poisoning of the atmosphere and the oceans.
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Last updated on 13 October 2014, 11:24 am
[font size=4]Slow response to both climate change and Ebola is killing people, warns Jim Yong Kim[/font]
[font size=3]By Sophie Yeo
World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim has compared climate change to Ebola, suggesting that inaction on both is “killing people”.
Speaking at the World Bank’s annual meeting with the International Monetary Fund, Kim said that the Bank’s work on climate change was informing its response to the deadly disease, which has killed over 4,000 people mainly in West Africa.
“Ebola and climate change have a few things in common. Most importantly, we are running out of time to find solutions to both,” he said.
“Also, until very recently, the plans to fight them were either non-existent or inadequate. And, inaction is literally killing people – one because of the rapid spread of a deadly virus, the other from the poisoning of the atmosphere and the oceans.
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