<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">COVID-19 mortality could exceed 100s of thousands. CO2-driven mortality could reach 1000s of millions.</span><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#222222" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Action to prevent or reduce COVID-19 mortality was delayed until threat of death was imminent. Action to prevent or reduce CO2-driven mortality may also be delayed until deaths are imminent</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">COVID-19 mortality has begun at attention-getting scale. CO2-driven mortality has also begun but not yet at the same attention-getting scale. </div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">COVID-19 mortality may subside over time. CO2-driven mortality is very likely to increase over time .</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Reducing risk of COVID-19 mortality requires changes in how we live our daily lives, right down to household and individual level including travel. Reducing risk of CO2-driven mortality requires changes in how we live our daily lives, right down to household and individual level including travel.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Financial, economic, and social disruption from COVID-19 gives a preview of financial, economic, and social disruption as CO2-driven mortality starts taking lives of today’s young and yet to be born.</div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">End rant</div><font color="#888888" style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Lance </div></font><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">**********************************************************************************</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">“It’s time that<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> everyone</span>, from the humble homeowner to the highest levels of business and government, rethink their relationship with energy and take action. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">"Relying on renewables alone won’t be enough.”<br class=""><br class=""><<<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikehughes1/2019/08/02/climate-change-18-months-to-save-the-world/#166763c749bd" class="">https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikehughes1/2019/08/02/climate-change-18-months-to-save-the-world/#166763c749bd</a>>></span></div><div><br class=""></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">***********************************************************************<br class="">“Collective action works; we have proved that. But to change everything, we need<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class=""> everyone. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">"Each and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">every one </span>of us must participate in the climate resistance movement.”<br class=""><br class="">Greta Thunberg, youth climate strike leader in Sweden.<br class="">Luisa Neubauer, German climate activist.<br class="">Angela Valenzuela, Fridays for Future in Santiago, Chile.<br class=""><br class=""><<<a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/29/why-we-strike-again" class="">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/11/29/why-we-strike-again</a>>></span></div></div>
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