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VACCINES for Covid-19 are now available. Many see in them hope to end this pandemic and return the world’s economy to normal. However, scientists warn that we may have to live longer if not permanently with the new normal: Already new and more infectious variants of the virus have appeared in Britain, creating uncertainty.
Still, with vaccines on hand, the urgency has died down a little. But there’s another global threat that remains urgent and for which there is no vaccine: Climate change. Like the virus, the greenhouse gases that are catastrophically warming the planet are invisible yet ever present. But while countries stepped up and people made sacrifices to combat Covid-19, that same political and social will is missing in the fight against climate change.
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