Environmentalists and activists say they’ve found a way to better sell climate change to a skeptical American public: paint global warming as a pandemic on par with the likes of coronavirus.
Environmentalists are pointing to drastic dips in carbon emissions in China and Europe during the coronavirus scourge to craft a new climate message.
They also suggest that there are some positive lessons to be learned from the virus, which has killed more than 8,000 people globally.
“If we can think about how to prepare for climate change like a pandemic, maybe there will be a positive outcome to all of this,” Christopher Jones, an environmental researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, told NBC News in a report published Wednesday.
He added: “We can help prevent crises in the future if we are prepared. I think there are some big-picture lessons here that could be very useful.”
NBC News’s report cited a March 13 Washington Post report that analyzed data from one of the European Space Agency’s satellites that seemed to suggest that nitrogen dioxide, or NO2, fell dramatically over Northern Italy, a portion of Europe that has been the most negatively impacted.
More than 1,800 people who were exposed to the virus have died in Italy over the last several weeks as the country has seen nearly 25,000 cases overall.
Nearly 430 people died in the country one day after contracting coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China in November 2019.
Other academics are offering similar critiques.
“As we move to restart these economies, we need to use this moment to think about what we value,” Jacqueline Klopp, co-director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University in New York City, told NBC.
“Do we want to go back to the status quo,” she rhetorically asked before adding: “or do we want to tackle these big structural problems and restructure our economy and reduce emissions and pollution?”
One environmentalist journalist pointed out that China’s draconian crackdown is creating the most benefits.
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Back in the 1990’s it was this save the Rain Forests Scam now its this Global Warming/Climate Change Scam whats next on the Eco-Freaks Little Green Books
Yesterday, China made a HUGE purchase of American corn, at a HUGE discount . The China virus has decimated the value of most commodities, especially oil. Analysts suggest that the economy will suffer more from the current calamity than 9-11. If this is a case of biological warfare, Xi just hit a bases loaded walk off home run.
Often times the activists make statements not that far from the truth. One stated that the pandemic can teach us how to deal with impacts of climate change. In reality, perhaps it can teach us how to deal with the impact of the climate change movement. Unlike climate change, the climate change movement is causing serious damage.
Well if these screwballs like China and Europe better then let them go live there its just they will have to do their own packing their own bags themselves
What about the screwball telling everyone to go to work and you will get over it?