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Jeremy Hunt MP
Chair of the health and social care committee
- Are you worried that the war in Ukraine will cause world leaders to de-prioritise other key issues, such as tackling the climate crisis and preparing for future pandemics?
- Absolutely. I mean, of course, we need to spend resources on Ukraine. But you have all the European budgets, all the rich-country budgets, let’s say, already pushed to the max by the pandemic. And that’s before they fund everything we need to do on climate change. So along comes Ukraine, which will increase defence costs, refugee costs, eventually rebuilding costs, they’ll want to subsidise the extra price of electricity, the extra cost of food. And so the challenges, the trade-offs in these budgets, are going to be tough.
I think it’s very important that we speak up, so that global health, things like the Global Fund [to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria] that’s saved millions of lives, or Gavi, that’s saved millions of lives, or whatever the pandemic-preparedness initiative [that is introduced], that we keep those in mind and not move on. The global-health enterprise is one of the most positive things humanity has done. To have it get fewer resources in this next decade would be tragic.
Мне чиста интересно, в какой момент интересы лоббистов ветряков перевесят интересы лоббистов военной промышленности
На картинке гейц и клинтон объясняют, что нужно потратить биллионы на вакцины для детей африки (снято в Лесото)
we’d be quite vigilant and willing to invest the billions that I suggest
Chair of the health and social care committee
- Are you worried that the war in Ukraine will cause world leaders to de-prioritise other key issues, such as tackling the climate crisis and preparing for future pandemics?
- Absolutely. I mean, of course, we need to spend resources on Ukraine. But you have all the European budgets, all the rich-country budgets, let’s say, already pushed to the max by the pandemic. And that’s before they fund everything we need to do on climate change. So along comes Ukraine, which will increase defence costs, refugee costs, eventually rebuilding costs, they’ll want to subsidise the extra price of electricity, the extra cost of food. And so the challenges, the trade-offs in these budgets, are going to be tough.
I think it’s very important that we speak up, so that global health, things like the Global Fund [to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria] that’s saved millions of lives, or Gavi, that’s saved millions of lives, or whatever the pandemic-preparedness initiative [that is introduced], that we keep those in mind and not move on. The global-health enterprise is one of the most positive things humanity has done. To have it get fewer resources in this next decade would be tragic.
Мне чиста интересно, в какой момент интересы лоббистов ветряков перевесят интересы лоббистов военной промышленности
На картинке гейц и клинтон объясняют, что нужно потратить биллионы на вакцины для детей африки (снято в Лесото)
we’d be quite vigilant and willing to invest the billions that I suggest
