This is a sinister plan to economically cleanse an entire sector of a political opponent.
open up all the world economies to pre-covid levels. end the farce.
16 Dec 2019: Real Clear Energy: Madrid Climate Conference Ends in Failure
By Rupert Darwall
Speaing two years before the Paris climate conference, Yvo de Boer, former executive secretary of the UN climate convention, was more candid. “The only way that a 2015 agreement can achieve a 2-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy,” he said...
https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2019/12/16/madrid_climate_conference_ends_in_failure_110499.html
source conveniently behind a Bloomberg paywall:
4 Nov 2013: Bloomberg: Kyoto Veterans Say Global Warming Goal Slipping Away
by Alex Morales
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-11-04/kyoto-veterans-say-global-warming-goal-slipping-away
5 Nov 2013: Press Reader: Montreal Gazette: Climate-change veterans see goals slipping away
‘Only way a 2015 agreement can achieve a two-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy’
by Alex Morales (Bloomberg)
“There is nothing that can be agreed in 2015 that would be consistent with the two degrees,” said Yvo de Boer, who was UNFCCC executive secretary in 2009, when attempts to reach a deal at a summit in Copenhagen crumbled with a rift between industrialized and developing nations.
“The only way that a 2015 agreement can achieve a two-degree goal is to shut down the whole global economy.”...
“The economic realities, the energy security realities, the poverty eradication realities, the access to energy realities are such that the main thing is to get as many countries as possible to make as bold a next step as they can without feeling threatened,” de Boer, now a special adviser on climate change to the accounting firm KPMG LLP, said by phone from Seoul. “By definition a 2015 outcome, even a brilliant one, must be inadequate, and it will lead to severe impacts.”...
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/montreal-gazette/20131105/281788511817291