Activists See Coronavirus Lockdowns As Dress Rehearsal for ‘Climate Emergency’

Climate Depot's Marc Morano: "If you like living under the coronavirus fears and government-mandated lockdowns, then you'll love living your life under a 'climate emergency'." Climate activists lusting after the coronavirus lockdowns

"Neither Greenpeace, nor Greta Thunberg, nor any other individual or collective organization have achieved so much in favor of the health of the planet in such a short time...It is certainly not very good for the economy in general, but it is fantastic for the environment." -- Astrophysicist & Philosopher Martín López Corredoira "One beneficiary will be the climate: after all, the world's lungs are already breathing more easily thanks to the collapse of industrial production. Who is to say that this pandemic does not provide a turning point in world history." - Oxford University Global History Professor Peter Frankopan on the coronavirus We have an "incredible responsibility" to "actually converge the solutions -- at least the financial solutions -- to coronavirus to the financial solutions for climate. Because what we cannot afford to do is to jump out of the frying pan of COVID and into the raging fire of climate change." -- Former UN Climate Chief and UN Paris pact architect Christiana Figueres & video link "[The UN Sec. Gen. said] the pandemic could create an opportunity to rebuild the global economy along more sustainable lines." - UN Secretary-General António Guterres as reported by Scientific American "If we can shut the world down to stop a virus, that also means it is possible to do the same for climate change. Treat all emergencies like emergencies!" - "What would it look like when the world actually decides to take on the climate crisis? It would look like what we’re seeing right now." - Teen activist JAMIE MARGOLIN in Teen Vogue magazine Op-Ed

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COVID-19 "offers an opportunity to direct finances towards bolstering climate action.” – “Similarly, we will step up our efforts to catalyze green investment to relaunch economies on low-emission, climate-resilient trajectories.” – United Nation’s Green Climate Fund "The mass shutdowns we now experience – likely necessary in a pandemic – could provide a model for imposing harsh actions to curb carbon emissions that activists consider as great or greater threats than the virus itself." - UK Guardian editorial staff "Let’s not let this crisis go to waste." Coronavirus offers "a chance to do capitalism differently." "Government has the upper hand, it must seize the moment." - UN’s environment chief, Inger Andersen "Already, the coronavirus has achieved something that government policies and moral awakening couldn’t: it is pushing us into green living...we’ll look back on December 2019 as the all-time peak in global carbon emissions...Governments need to make good use of the current pandemic." - Simon Kuper - FT (Financial Times) Magazine columnist "The similarities between the causes of and solutions to the coronavirus and the climate crisis are nothing short of eerie." -- Mark Hertsgaard (Covering Climate) & Kyle Pope Kyle Pope, editor in chief of the Columbia Journalism Review.-- More...