![]() For example, we demand the most from “essential workers” (including nurses, supermarket workers, and delivery drivers) while paying them the least. These shortcomings reflect the distorted values underlying our priorities. These include governments’ diminishing capacity to address public-health crises, the private sector’s limited ability to withstand sustained economic disruption, and pervasive social inequality. But the three crises – and their solutions – are interconnected.ĬOVID-19 is itself a consequence of environmental degradation: one recent study dubbed it “ the disease of the Anthropocene.” Moreover, climate change will exacerbate the social and economic problems highlighted by the pandemic. Many think of the climate crisis as distinct from the health and economic crises caused by the pandemic. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently. Under a “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. ![]() Shifting Arctic ice, raging wildfires in western US states and elsewhere, and methane leaks in the North Sea are all warning signs that we are approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilization will require dramatic interventions. In the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again – this time to tackle a climate emergency. LONDON – As COVID-19 spread earlier this year, governments introduced lockdowns in order to prevent a public-health emergency from spinning out of control. We need to act boldly now if we are to avoid economy-wide lockdowns to halt climate change We must do capitalism differently to avoid that. That might mean governments limiting private vehicle use, banning consumption of red meat, etc. OPINION: We may need climate lockdowns to halt climate change, Mariana Mazzucato writes. Told you so! ‘Fantastic’ for the climate: Activists See Coronavirus Lockdowns As Dress Rehearsal for ‘Climate Emergency’ – Special Report - Climate Depot's Marc Morano: "If you like living under the coronavirus fears and government-mandated lockdowns, then you'll love living your life under a 'climate emergency'."įlashback June 2020: World Economic Forum Chairman Schwab: ‘We need a Great Reset of capitalism’ due to COVID – Virus has given ‘opportunity’ for ‘equality & sustainability’ & fighting climateīy: Marc Morano - Climate Depot Septem2:34 PM with 0 comments Mariana Mazzucato of University College London in UK Guardian Soros/Gates Funded $6.5 million to group now warning world may need ‘climate lockdown’įlashback March 2020: "Let’s not let this crisis go to waste." Coronavirus offers "a chance to do capitalism differently." "Government has the upper hand, it must seize the moment." - Prof. ![]() Soros/Gates Funded Progressives Planning ‘Climate lockdown’ – ‘The world may need to resort to lockdowns again – this time to tackle a climate emergency’ ![]() Watch: Morano on One America News TV: COVID Lockdowns Are A Trial Run For Climate Lockdowns – Morphing ‘from a COVID lockdown to a climate lockdown’ Avoiding this scenario will require a green economic transformation – and thus a radical overhaul of corporate governance, finance, policy, and energy systems." "The world is approaching a tipping point on climate change, when protecting the future of civilization will require dramatic interventions. But the three crises – and their solutions – are interconnected.". ![]() Mariana Mazzucato of University College London on Sept 22, 2020: "In the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again – this time to tackle a climate emergency." "Under a 'climate lockdown,' governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. ![]()
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