Lockdowns across the globe triggered by the coronavirus pandemic this year shut down businesses, took cars off roads and kept huge portions of population at home, ostensibly causing a reduction in hydrocarbon emissions. Based on the drop in emissions, “Climate change” activists are proposing we morph pandemic lockdowns into climate lockdowns, permanently.
Under a “climate lockdown,” left-wing groups propose 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 lockdown scenario the left is demanding we overhaul our economic structures and “