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Is a ‘Climate Lockdown’ Next?
National Review ^
| September 25, 2020
| Wesley J. Smith
Posted on 09/26/2020 8:46:22 AM PDT by Salman
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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; tyrrany
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"Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose"?
The very name of it reeks with totalitarianism and mass murder.
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:46:22 AM PDT
by
Salman
To: Salman
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:49:24 AM PDT
by
OttawaFreeper
("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
To: Salman
This sounds like the mystery Senator McGuire, Jered Huffman and Assemblyman Woods( all California) were telling the town halls that AOC’s Green New Deal will roll out in a different plan. They verbalized and never elaborated two years ago. They also refused to answer my questions
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:49:40 AM PDT
by
Karliner
(Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
To: Salman
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:55:29 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Salman
"Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose"? The very name of it reeks with totalitarianism and mass murder.
The Committee of Public Safety, updated for the 21st century. Roll out the guillotines.
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:57:57 AM PDT
by
Deo volente
("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
To: Karliner
of course climate change will be the next big idea to restrict and punish the peoples, especially peoples they don't like...
its dry in Arizona?...close all pools, no watering of flowers, 3min showers, etc.....the golf courses will remain green though, for the rich....
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:58:27 AM PDT
by
cherry
To: Salman
Likely to become policy under the Harris/Biden administration
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:58:41 AM PDT
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
To: Salman
Elect Joe, and this nightmare among others will be the new laws of our land, even if not enacted.
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posted on
09/26/2020 8:58:47 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(3 NOV 2020! VOTE JOBS! NOT RIOTING BLM/ANTIFA/DEM/MOBS! /POLICE FOR US! NOT JUST FOR THE ELITE!)
To: Salman
As if things like this could happen without forcing a regime change.
The American people simply will not comply.
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:00:14 AM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
Um, have you taken a look around our country over the past six months?
To: Salman
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:03:27 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
To: Salman
I don’t want any of this anectodal evidence of climate change to shut us down. We need hard evidence before we do anything. We have California (and the rest of the left coast) as perfect test subjects with their green new deal. They want zero emssion power production by 2035.
We need a minimum 15 year study to document the slide of these progressives into a third world abyss. It is already a double blind study since these idiots are so willing to walk off a cliff.
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:03:50 AM PDT
by
kickstart
("A gun is a tool. It is only as good or as bad as the man who uses it" . Alan Ladd in 'Shane')
To: Salman
Global warming is a theory ONLY.
It is NOT PROVEN FACT.
A lockdown cant be based on a theory.
To: Salman
Let's do it!
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:05:29 AM PDT
by
PROCON
(MOLON LABE)
To: Salman
The major takeaway should be how easy it was to use an overblown pandemic to transform America from
It could never happen here
To
Its happening here...
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:05:34 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(In this circus called the Democrat Party, Biden is the monkey and Harris is the organ grinder...)
To: kickstart
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:05:43 AM PDT
by
cgbg
(Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
To: doc maverick
Why not? The current lockdown is.
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:06:23 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(In this circus called the Democrat Party, Biden is the monkey and Harris is the organ grinder...)
To: Mariner
As if things like this could happen without forcing a regime change. The American people simply will not comply.
A year ago I would've agreed with you. Not today. Seems Americans complied pretty quickly to the kabuki theater known as the Covid "pandemic".
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:07:43 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: Salman
I can't say. But you can bet your ass that they will be a another lock down of some sort. The sheep, a/k/a idiots enjoy being locked down too much. It gives them an air of superiority as they proudly wear their symbols so submission. i.e. their masks. And to bend the knee and raise their fists in support of those who hate America. to wit} BLM. You can count on another lock down. The haters of America and the cuckolds will demand it.
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posted on
09/26/2020 9:16:18 AM PDT
by
sport
To: Salman
This sounds crazy BUT watching how easily people surrendered their rights with this Chinese virus, nothing is off the table...
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