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Here’s what a coronavirus-like response to the climate crisis would look like
latimes.com ^ | March 24, 2020 | SAMMY ROTH

Posted on 03/25/2020 7:44:58 AM PDT by PROCON

Both the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are global crises with the power to derail economies and kill millions of people.

Society has moved far more aggressively to address the coronavirus than it has the climate crisis. But some experts wonder if the unprecedented global mobilization to slow the pandemic might help pave the way for more dramatic climate action.

Leah Stokes, a political scientist at UC Santa Barbara, pointed out that aggressive steps to reduce planet-warming emissions — such as investing in solar and wind power, switching to electric cars and requiring more efficient buildings — wouldn’t be nearly as disruptive to everyday life as the stay-at-home orders that have defined the novel coronavirus response.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Weather
KEYWORDS: covid19; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal
Did anyone think the Climatistas weren't going to use this pandemic to their advantage?
1 posted on 03/25/2020 7:44:58 AM PDT by PROCON
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2 posted on 03/25/2020 7:48:01 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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Remember kids, anything you read in the El Segundo Times is written by Self Avowed Marxists and Communists, in fact you can NOT get a Job there without quoting Mein Kampf and Joe Stalin during the initial interview.


3 posted on 03/25/2020 7:49:58 AM PDT by eyeamok
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Society has moved far more aggressively to address the coronavirus than it has the climate crisis.

That's because there is no "climate crisis".

4 posted on 03/25/2020 7:50:32 AM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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...the climate crisis would look like


There is no climate crisis. None. Zip, nada.


5 posted on 03/25/2020 7:54:30 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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When they have milked all the panic they can out of the coronavirus they will be going back to “climate change”. But even though goverment officials will be claiming they saved us all by hobbling the economy, much of the public will be more skeptical than they were previously.


6 posted on 03/25/2020 7:55:34 AM PDT by fireman15
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This has all been a set up test to see how docile the population is. Indefinite climate crisis shutdown is coming in the next couple of years, based on this test. They now know that nobody pushes back.


7 posted on 03/25/2020 7:55:44 AM PDT by Codeflier (FearRepublic.com - Demanding even more socialism than Democratic Underground - Amazing to witness it)
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To: libertylover

Back in 1969 there was an amazing paper being passed around where a guy proved that black is white. He did it by getting the reader to assume as fact something that didn’t seem important, but was actually false. And at the end of the paper he had proven that black is white, but the foundation on which it was built was that one tiny falsehood.

So whenever someone says “climate crisis”, I say, “what on earth are you talking about? There is no climate crisis.


8 posted on 03/25/2020 7:56:56 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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9 posted on 03/25/2020 8:10:23 AM PDT by C210N
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First, they need to prove there is any “climate crisis”!


10 posted on 03/25/2020 8:12:32 AM PDT by datura
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This has all been a set up test to see how docile the population is.

So is the covid-19 pandemic a hoax too? Is President Trump in on the hoax?

11 posted on 03/25/2020 8:16:50 AM PDT by PROCON (Molon Labe)
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We may need to reduce their carbon footprints, permanently.


12 posted on 03/25/2020 8:18:33 AM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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So is the covid-19 pandemic a hoax too? Is President Trump in on the hoax?

The over reaction is a hoax. It is a serious infection for about 1% of the population and it to fight it effectively does not require a complete shut down of the economy to "protect" those most in danger. Get it?

13 posted on 03/25/2020 8:25:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn....)
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To: PROCON

There is no climate crisis.


14 posted on 03/25/2020 8:30:27 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Oh goody a political scientist wants to lecture us on business economics, scientific discovery, and other things he knows nothing about


15 posted on 03/25/2020 8:46:01 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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I think this virus was designed and spread by Greta herself. She has a secret little lab in Sweden where she works on weekends. She got sick on chinese food once so started it there.

This is as good of a story as anyone else is telling.


16 posted on 03/25/2020 8:50:37 AM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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I think this virus was designed and spread by Greta herself. She has a secret little lab in Sweden where she works on weekends. She got sick on chinese food once so started it there.

This is as good of a story as anyone else is telling.


17 posted on 03/25/2020 8:54:19 AM PDT by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: PROCON

No the extreme measures in Democratic and Rino controlled areas, are push the envelope tests to gauge how much the population will accept. Apparently, we will accept a lot! They will soon do this even more extremely to prevent an “even worse climate change disaster”


18 posted on 03/25/2020 9:31:19 AM PDT by Codeflier (FearRepublic.com - Demanding even more socialism than Democratic Underground - Amazing to witness it)
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If the climate hoaxers could only generate the same level of hysteria that this virus has, they could adopt the same fascist tactics and finally achieve their long-sought orgasm.


19 posted on 03/25/2020 10:35:45 AM PDT by IronJack
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Since there is no such thing as a “Climate Crisis”, I have no idea what this Article is about.


20 posted on 03/25/2020 10:37:13 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Kill a Commie for your Mommy.)
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