Posted on 07/20/2022 3:17:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Mariana Mazzucato warns that shutdown may be needed unless we 'do capitalism differently'
The novel coronavirus shutdowns and restrictions are slowly being lifted in most areas, but already warnings of a “climate shutdown” have begun reverberating on the environmental left.
A leading U.N. economist who advises European governments last week sent up a trial balloon via an article titled “Avoiding a Climate Lockdown,” arguing that in “the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again — this time to tackle a climate emergency.”
“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,” wrote Mariana Mazzucato, a University College London economics professor who is a member of the U.N. Committee on Development Policy. “To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.”
Climate change skeptics immediately flagged her article on Project-Syndicate.org, which warned that the COVID-19 shutdowns have provided a blueprint for how to reduce emissions in a “climate emergency.”
“When COVID came along and the entire world went into a grip of fear and immediately started locking down, everything the climate activists had been demanding almost happened almost overnight,” said Marc Morano, founder of the anti-climate change website ClimateDepot.com. “In short, the COVID lockdown is a trial run for the climate lockdown.”
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Just another retard with no clue what it takes to grow corn vs raise cattle vs farm bugs ( something no one has ever done).
Yes, comrades, it’s easy.
All it takes to fix capitalism is communism.
Hence Brandon’s “climate emergency” and powers that go with a state of emergency.
She? she? you sure? looks suspicious from here.
Want to bet she suffers from Loneliness and Depression
How about we put this useless Professor on a row boat without aors and send him out to sea!
Those elbow knobs look more like long hours at a bar rather than any sort of roughing it in the woods?
She looks like she needs a good steak dinner
She looks kinda ... masculine too, doncha think?
She looks kinda ... masculine too, doncha think?
because she has starved herself
In big cities they should put up world war II style air raid sirens warning the people to lock themselves down.
Horny for control
Global Warming PING!
Back when some of us were supporting the lockdowns, people were warning that such measures could be used for “climate control” also.
Yep. Why drive your carbon-spewing car to the polls when you can use the handy-dandy, convenient mail-in ballot?
I just finished a professional conference about hospital facility engineering. About 20% of the presentation time was spent on sustainability and decarbonization nonsense. One session was even on ESG.
Where do they get this garbage? It’s a total collective waste of our brain power and professional efforts.
If oil companies stopped producing there would be a 1001 products that would not be made, no petrochemicals, no fertilizer, etc. and etc.. If there were total lockdowns then people would starve and die but they would riot before that happened. This guy is totally delusional in his thinking.
They get it from the people that have figured out how to successfully scam. Think "The Music Man".
Totalitarians never give up!!!!
The Soviet Union disappeared in 1991. That SHOULD have been the end! But no, these birds refuse to give up. PHOOEY!!!!!
And by the way, there is NO climate “emergency”!!!!
From UCL, one of the most overrated universities in the world.
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