Clean Environment for Smart Living. Epidemiological and Environmental Issues are Two Sides of Same Coin

We all know by now what global warming means. It will raise temperatures to unprecedented levels, melt polar ice caps and raise water levels, which will eventually change the map of the Earth.

The term environmental imbalance has also become familiar in discussions about the environmental damage caused by mankind and how humans put their interests above those of the environment. The persistent reluctance of the relevant parties, officials, and stakeholders to control the harmful practices, which have exacerbated in a manner that is threatening our existence on planet earth, makes us concerned about the future of the World.
Talking about coming environmental, climate hazards reminds us of my previous warnings. I wrote one and a half years ago about the environmental hazard and drew a comparison between it and the epidemiological hazard of COVID. I also talked about the man who stood against them both, Bill Gates, who warned about the man-made “climate change” catastrophe by saying, “This environmental catastrophe will have severer impact than the pandemic, which inflicted great losses on the global economy. As awful as this pandemic is, climate change could be worse.”
I pointed out in my article back in May 2019 how for decades, the countries of the world had taken actions to address the coming environmental hazards, but they are no more than pain killers that might slow the harm and solve a fraction of the problem. This includes the ban on the use of pressurized liquids and replacing non-biodegradable plastics with paper.
We are in the face of a major problem the world cannot afford to ignore anymore for which a radical solution must be found. That is because our daily lifestyle, whether simple or sophisticated, has adapted with the tools of civilization produced by worldwide factories, which are the main cause of the problem with their carbon emissions that will eventually kill the inhabitants of the Earth.

I was happy to see this week a statement issued by the leader of knowledge, Bill Gates, where he compares between the losses caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the anticipated losses caused by global warming. He says, “The mortality rate of coronavirus is around 14 deaths per 100,000. Within the next 40 years, increases in global temperatures are projected to raise global mortality rates by the same amount - 14 deaths per 100,000. This number will increase 5 times by the year 2100.”
The World is facing a major crisis. Bill Gates’ statements stresses two facts. Firstly, rejecting the conspiracy theories to explain the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, including the one that claims he was behind it and wants to get rid of 15% of the population of the earth under the pretext of vaccinating them. Secondly, is that we are facing a real environmental crisis that resembles the epidemiological crisis and is no less dangerous. The difference between the two is that one of them is manmade, while the other is not.
We have to protect the environment and make it a priority over any profits, such as the case with Volkswagen, where the company forged data related to the carbon emissions. This has led to the company being sued and paying billions of dollars in fines. The US President, moreover, is denying the crisis, not accepting it altogether, and describing it as a Chinese hoax that aims to harm US industries. The US has even withdrawn from the Paris Climate Agreement, a decision that has worried us all.

This withdrawal has perpetuated the environmental hazard. We are facing a game of interests and protection of profits. The withdrawal also stirred warnings from the US press, the global press and a member of the US House of Representatives, Ms. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who said, “The world will end in 12 years.”
The underlying reasons related to both environmental and epidemiological hazards are known. We have to be cautious with the first and address it, just as we have been cautious and addressed the second through the UN International Standards of Accounting and Reporting, which the UN Secretary General mandated me to chair. For this purpose, we established “Accounting Standards for Environmental Responsibility”, some of which were mentioned during a seminar entitled, “Environmental Oversight in the Arab World,” which was held as part of the activities of the Economic Forum in Jordan in 2019. The activists discussed the importance of environmental protection by curbing anything that harmed the climate balance, focusing on alternative energy, gradually phasing out  traditional energy and spreading a culture of waste recycling.

Finally, it is time to sponsor a team of artificial intelligence experts, to innovate smart solutions that will reduce the impact of harmful industrial emissions to make them non-toxic, under the theme "A Clean Environment for Smart Living."