Prepare for the Coming "Climate Lockdowns"

[rangerrebew]

Monday, February 22, 2021
 

AOC with Mariana Mazzucato

 Do you think it can't get much worse than COVID-19 lockdowns?

Think again.

An establishment-connected lefty professor says 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,” writes Mariana Mazzucato, a professor at the Economics of Innovation and Public Value Center at University College London, in a paper titled “Avoiding a Climate Lockdown.”

The title of her paper is very misleading. She believes climate lockdowns will be necessary unless we "overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently."

https://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2021/02/prepare-for-coming-climate-lockdowns.html?spref=tw

[skeeter]

Lockdowns are the new item in the statists' toolbox.

You can be sure they'll whip it out again - once the totalitarians are allowed such power they will never, ever relinquish it.

[Idiot]

Lockdowns are the new item in the statists' toolbox.

You can be sure they'll whip it out again - once the totalitarians are allowed such power they will never, ever relinquish it.

Oh...just great!  Glad I'll be dead in 10-20 years...