You knew they would try to pivot off the draconian COVID policies and use climate change as the pretext to deploy the same rigid controls over our lives. Now, perhaps a trial balloon is being floated for a “climate lockdown.”
The noxious idea is that we are at (yet another) tipping point, and that unless government radically seizes centralized control of the economy, it will be shutdown time. From, “Avoiding a Climate Lockdown,” by Mariana Mazzucato, Founding Director of the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose:
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. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.
You can just imagine the authoritarianism Mazzucato proposes — meaning, it wouldn’t be capitalism at all. For example:
We need to reorient our energy system around renewable energy – the antidote to climate change and the key to making our economies energy-secure. We must therefore evict fossil-fuel interests and short-termism from business, finance, and politics. Financially powerful institutions such as banks and universities must divest from fossil-fuel companies. Until they do, a carbon-based economy will prevail.
Never mind that the U.S. has led the world in reducing emissions because of the fossil fuel known as natural gas!
The good news about all of this is that in the United States at least, it will never happen. I mean, if people rebel against lockdowns and controls in the midst of a pandemic, they are not about to let these radical technocrats thwart their living the good life based on global-warming hysteria.
I think we need a STUPID lockdown. Let’s put a;; of the stupid people with all of their stupid ideas in California and build a great wall around the state. No one in or out. No flights, no boats, no vehicles.
Simple minded fool
.that would be you tommie boi
No, actually Tom is a MINDLESS fool! Hopefully, he/she is not diluting the gene pool with his/her DNA!
Tom Hanks is presently living in Greece where pedophilia is accepted as a ‘disease’ and he’s fleeing prosecution.
As for climate change – these tree hugger morons should read MILANKOVITCH and they’d understand his research! He did core samples of the Arctic and found that climate continues to repeats itself. Core samples don’t lie.
He also concluded that the earth spins more like a top than symmetrical. It has a wobble. When it wobbles 1 way we have hotter summers, warmer winters; wobbles the other they are colder and wetter! Whackjob left morons always talk about following the science but never do it themselves!!!! GLOBAL WARMING IS A FARCE — just another way for the rich bilderbergs to tax and control you!!!! WAKE THE F##K UP!!! !
Fact there is Global Warming and cooling and there is climate change. It’s been happening for billions of years long before man evolved. The crackpot climate change and global warming non-science based opinions of extremists are claiming man drives the events and simply as all leftist do is take the facts out-of-context and say the disbelievers claim there is no climate change or global warming—a total lie. The truth is that these extremists simply can’t admit that they (as a member of the human race, although not an asset) and man as a whole isn’t anywhere near powerful enough to manipulate mother nature is any way: example: if we had that much power we’d be controlling weather not suffering under it. These extremists simply can’t even understand “common sense” (in quotes as they aren’t included in the common or the sense categories).
I am from Pennsylvania and when they did the lockdown for covid, after about a week or so it actually became hotter day by day. Go figure the skies cleared of pollution and the temperature climbed. Makes me wonder also about global warming. To me it seemed the pollution kept things colder.