Is a ‘Climate Lockdown’ Next?

National Review ^ | September 25, 2020 | Wesley J. Smith

[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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[Salman]

"Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose"?

The very name of it reeks with totalitarianism and mass murder.

[OttawaFreeper]

[Karliner]

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

[rktman]

From Breitbart:

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/09/25/0-43-climate-alarmists-want-lockdowns-halt-climate-change/

LOL!

[Deo volente]

"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.

[cherry]

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....

[PIF]

Likely to become policy under the Harris/Biden administration

[Grampa Dave]

Elect Joe, and this nightmare among others will be the new laws of our land, even if not enacted.

[Mariner]

As if things like this could happen without forcing a regime change.

The American people simply will not comply.

[9YearLurker]

Um, have you taken a look around our country over the past six months?

[Don Corleone]

“Out damn sun...out!

[kickstart]

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.

[doc maverick]

Global warming is a theory ONLY.
It is NOT PROVEN FACT.
A lockdown can’t be based on a theory.

[PROCON]

Let's do it!

[gov_bean_ counter]

The major takeaway should be how easy it was to use an overblown “pandemic” to transform America from

It could never happen here

To

It’s happening here...

[cgbg]

https://cei.org/blog/wrong-again-50-years-failed-eco-pocalyptic-predictions

Talk about a long con!

[gov_bean_ counter]

Why not? The current lockdown is.

[Drew68]

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".

[sport]

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.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

This sounds crazy BUT watching how easily people surrendered their rights with this Chinese virus, nothing is off the table...