Coronavirus Lockdown is ‘Fantastic’ for the Climate say Activists
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’.”
The climate change activist community has been in awe at the governments around the world and their responses to the coronavirus or COVID-19 pandemic. Global warming campaigners have been watching closely and taking notes as the virus-induced societal shutdowns have enacted many of the climate activists’ long sought after agenda.
The coronavirus government response of austere lockdowns and limited economic activity has inspired climate activists and motivated them to the virus fears to lobby for their climate “solutions.”
Below: Climate activists lusting after the coronavirus lockdowns
“Neither Greenpeace, nor Greta Thunberg, nor any other individual or collective organization have achieved so much in favor of the health of the planet in such a short time…It is certainly not very good for the economy in general, but it is fantastic for the environment.” — Astrophysicist & Philosopher Martín López Corredoira
“One beneficiary will be the climate: after all, the world’s lungs are already breathing more easily thanks to the collapse of industrial production. Who is to say that this pandemic does not provide a turning point in world history.” – Oxford University Global History Professor Peter Frankopan on the coronavirus
“[The UN Sec. Gen. said] the pandemic could create an opportunity to rebuild the global economy along more sustainable lines.” – UN Secretary-General António Guterres as reported by Scientific American
“If we can shut the world down to stop a virus, that also means it is possible to do the same for climate change. Treat all emergencies like emergencies!” – “What would it look like when the world actually decides to take on the climate crisis? It would look like what we’re seeing right now.” – Teen activist JAMIE MARGOLIN in Teen Vogue magazine Op-Ed
COVID-19 “offers an opportunity to direct finances towards bolstering climate action.” – “Similarly, we will step up our efforts to catalyze green investment to relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories.” – United Nation’s Green Climate Fund
“The mass shutdowns we now experience – likely necessary in a pandemic – could provide a model for imposing harsh actions to curb carbon emissions that activists consider as great or greater threats than the virus itself.” – UK Guardian editorial staff
“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.” – UN’s environment chief, Inger Andersen
“Already, the coronavirus has achieved something that government policies and moral awakening couldn’t: it is pushing us into green living…we’ll look back on December 2019 as the all-time peak in global carbon emissions…Governments need to make good use of the current pandemic.” – Simon Kuper – FT (Financial Times) Magazine columnist
“The similarities between the causes of and solutions to the coronavirus and the climate crisis are nothing short of eerie.” — Mark Hertsgaard (Covering Climate) & Kyle Pope Kyle Pope, editor in chief of the Columbia Journalism Review.
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Andy Rowlands
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I bet all the quoted people are in favour of destroying Capitalism, bringing down the industrialised nations, and creating their beloved Socialist utopia where everything is free. The facts that poverty would increase massively, standards of living and life-spans would be dramatically reduced, as would the availabliity of food and electricity, leading to the deaths of millions, are obviously something we should all be striving towards.
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Dev
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Fully agree with you.
The morality of the lock-down is a perverse act of containment that goes against principles of self preservation/survival/volition that are our innate rights. The UN declaration for human rights is also a perverse act as it subverts our innate right to life and all that it engenders to their self assumed authoritarian stance as global guardian. (The UN thus portrays itself as the purveyor championing human rights when it is not their place and is each individuals right)
They are a minority as are all governments, they are a subset of our cultures who have a taken over by various interconnected mechanisms, from feudalism and organised religion to the creation of the banking system as we now observe it that is in reality a (usurious) debt system of leviathan proportion that systematically asset strips/controls global natural resources and the real value that we all add through labour and intellect to the system, while they in return do nothing of tangible value.
Social distancing, lock-downs, the 5G issue, seasonal cold and flu maladies, malnutrition via appalling industrial agronomics, environmental pollution and toxic lifestyles and inadequate education, notwithstanding the bought an paid for MSM, think-tanks and inaccurate statistical representations are just some of the cumulative aspects of the multifaceted and layered environment in which we are now encompassed and is set to lead to biometric-ID’s and vaccinations for ultimate control in what can only be labelled as a dystopian panopticon.
An individual cannot assign right to others that they do not posses themselves! That is the unrecognised failure of democracy that places it in the same soup as communism and fascism.
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Joel Walbert
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I say this with absolute seriousness, I hope these idiots catch something and die.
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Andy Rowlands
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I find it hard to disagree with your conclusion Joel 🙂
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Tom Anderson
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H.L. Mencken
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Andy Rowlands
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Spot on Tom.
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