It really is fantastic that the leading Big Media outlet wants to use the suffering of people around the world, and the deaths of millions, to push their climate cult beliefs
The Guardian view on coronavirus and the climate crisis: seize this chance
In the early days of the pandemic, many people urged that societies could not and should not return to business as usual afterwards. Coronavirus not only confronted us with danger, but showed what was possible. By forcing massive overnight change, it demonstrated that dramatic action could be taken when a crisis was urgent enough; that many people could agree to make sacrifices when truly necessary; and that governments could invest trillions when the future of their countries demanded it. But as the great pause has turned into a gradual reopening, there is little sign that these lessons have been learned.
Greta Thunberg’s call for climate action should be seen in this context. The campaigner, writing for the Guardian to mark the second anniversary of her first school strike, says the world has wasted that time. While millions have been inspired to follow her in protest, and the European parliament has declared a climate and environmental emergency, little action has resulted.
Over the last six months or so, the pandemic has not only demonstrated that change can be quicker than anyone anticipated, it has also offered a practical opportunity to reconfigure economies. Governments are spending money as they have never done in peacetime. Germany and South Korea have seized this chance for big green investments. Others, including the UK, have not. Shockingly, G20 countries are spending much more in support of fossil fuels than on low-carbon energy in their rescue packages; few even imposed green targets when they bailed out the airlines, as France did.
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There is still time to act. Economic rescue packages are still being shaped; Berlin’s has shown what is possible. In the UK, coal’s role in power generation has slumped from almost 25% to 2% in just a few years, and the offshore wind industry is thriving. The ban on petrol and diesel cars slated for 2035 should be accelerated, and the installation of gas boilers outlawed. But above all, pandemic response spending must be directed to those parts of the economy that can reduce global heating, not worsen it.
The Coronavirus pandemic is real. And showed that so many Modern Socialist leaders were more than willing to implement draconian, authoritarian, Progressive (nice Fascism) “solutions”, controlling and limiting the lives of people, many of them very arbitrary. You can’t go to the gym in most states, but you can go out and riot. You can’t go to an indoor church, but, you can march in the streets. This business can open, but that one can’t. You couldn’t go to your second home, you couldn’t travel. Economic activity crashed, and Democrats and Modern Socialists around the world tried to keep it there. Has everyone enjoyed their test drive of Modern Socialism? And they want to make it so the average person cannot move around except on Government run mass transit, and get rid of reliable, inexpensive natural gas for your home. Easier to control you.
