Correction, Please!
Like the Disastrous Virus Lockdown? If So, You’ll Love the Green New Delusion
Item: “Following the pandemic is like watching the climate crisis with your finger jammed on the fast-forward button,” opines the Economist. The London-based publication, in the cover story of its issue dated May 23-29, maintains: “Neither the virus nor greenhouse gases care much for borders, making both scourges global. Both put the poor and vulnerable at greater risk than wealthy elites and demand government action on a scale hardly ever seen in peacetime.”
The pandemic, argues the Economist, “creates a unique chance to enact government policies that steer the economy away from carbon at a lower financial, social and political cost than might otherwise have been the case.”
Item: The New York Times has had a plethora of pieces about how the impact of the coronavirus could be useful in pushing green-tinged programs. For instance, on May 19 (in “Americans See Climate as a Concern, Even Amid Coronavirus Crisis”), it dismissed any thought that “Covid-19 might displace climate change as a threat in the American mind.” “It hasn’t,” assured the left-wing “newspaper of record.”
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