Future generations may not forgive the World Health Organization’s member nations, should they fail to agree on a pandemic treaty, the organization’s chief said Saturday at the Warwick Economic Summit, calling the agreement “mission critical for humanity.”

Despite lessons that should have been learned during COVID-19, the world is unprepared for the next pandemic, be it an influenza virus, another coronavirus, or “Disease X”—a term the organization has used since 2018 to refer to a yet-unknown pandemic pathogen, Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, speaking virtually from Geneva at the summit, held in Coventry, England.

  • Rooter@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Hahaha, you think climate change is a threat? They are going to be dealing with mass poverty giving rise to Fascism.

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      10 months ago

      Hah you’re worried about mass poverty leading to fascism? They are going to be dealing with… Checks five page long list with horrors awaiting future generations unavoidable microplastics poisoning them from the moment they are conceived

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          10 months ago

          Not directly worse, no. Microplastics are killing ocean life. That will kick off a chain-reaction of food shortage-related catastrophes: big time wars and a lot of megadeath. We’re going to see a WHOLE LOT of mini-Hitlers come from that.