“There is no doubt that the Corona epidemic is a wake-up call,” says Prof. Ofira Ayalon, head of environmental affairs at the Samuel Neaman Institute at the Technion and the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources at the University of Haifa,
“But it is important to say that while it is a crisis that threatens all countries in the same way, the climate crisis will hit different countries in different ways – in one flood and another in the form of fires, heat or cold waves. So it will be difficult to learn from the Corona lesson how to work together as one global world, but we can learn from it how to prepare the health system for disasters, and how to be more communal because central government’s ability to help is limited and the real safety-net is the community”.
