COVID-19 has not only been a nightmare for the public worldwide but especially for “climate crisis” alarmists who have seen their agenda disappear from the media radar.
And it’s going to stay off the radar for quite some time. People can take only so much panic and restriction.
Once the COVID-19 crisis subsides, and it will in a few months, the global citizenry will be in absolutely no mood to keep on panicking. They’ll want to go back to the prosperity they previously enjoyed.
“Enough sacrifice and restrictions,” they’ll be saying.
Far lower urgency
There are several reasons the climate crisis isn’t going to come back soon.
First off, it’s human nature to address only dangers that are truly present. Though many believe there’s a climate crisis, it’s one that is perceived to be years, even decades, off into the future.
So there’s no sense of real urgency like the immediate sort we’ve been seeing with COVID-19. So what if sea level rises 2 feet by 2100. I can move in 30 years – long before it ever gets here!
People will be sick and tired of panic
Secondly, by the time COVID-19 passes, citizens will be sick and tired of panicking, and they aren’t going to be in the mood for a continued high-level panic over something far, far less urgent.
They’ll have had enough of lockdowns and sacrificing and aren’t going to be very open to sacrificing for the weather.
Too many people aren’t buying the flaky climate crisis “science”
A third reason is that the climate crisis is still highly uncertain and increasingly hotly disputed. Much of the science behind it is flimsy.
While it has been crystal clear that COVID-19 is urgent, especially for the elderly, the climate crisis is fraught with huge uncertainties and flaky science.
Too many people just aren’t buying it. They’re going to take the let’s-wait-and-see attitude before flying off the handle again.
The media aren’t going to keep up the high panic
Fourthly, the media can’t devote the same attention to the “climate crisis” that they did to COVID-19 simply because people would just tune them out, and rightly so. Enough is enough. People will want to get back to normalcy.
Who in their right mind would want to spend the rest of his life in a state of panic like the alarmists propose?
Why would people — already fatigued by the COVID-19 panic — worry about a climate doomsday when summer is finally there?
And despite all the hype surrounding Greta and Fridays for Future, a recent study by the organization Media Matters, revealed that there were only 238 minutes of climate crisis coverage by major US networks in 2019!
So after COVID-19 subsides, the networks aren’t going to keep crying doomsday. They know they’ll be tuned out totally if they do.
The climate crisis had gotten little attention
Chart: Media Matters
Gotten so old
Moreover, the climate warnings have been going on more than 30 years now and people had been tuning them out already and for good reason.
Life on the planet by most measures is far better today. All the dire predictions made in the 1990s and 2000s never came to pass.
Political suicide
Finally, politicians will be very wary about calling for more pain to combat a distant, dubious threat. Doing so after going through the pain of COVID-19 would be tantamount to political suicide.
Dictatorship as the last hope for the climate crisis?
“As heretical as it may sound, there are valid questions to be raised about whether a democratic system with regular elections is suited to dealing with an issue that requires short-term sacrifice for long-term benefits,” wrote Joe Wiggins, a researcher in fund management.
Good luck with that.
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People are fed up with the hypocrisy of the current crisis . Just wait for another month . This is a small example of the kind of economic devastation things like
the Green New Deal would result in . People will say…. didn’t enjoy the preview hypocrites now get out of my life .
The scary global warming industry killed by a bat . Who knew . Seems a certain type of payback justice considering how many million bats have been massacred by bird blenders .
Obama is SO worried about the climate he bought an $11 million dollar , waterfront house . How many bathrooms are in an $11 million house ?
3 for each occupant ?
While people are hunkered down it’s an opportunity to reflect.
China signed the Paris Accord.
China is now the largest emitter of carbon dioxide and pulling away.
China could have warned the world about their virus but did the opposite.
The World Health Organization, a wing of the United Nations, has praised China’s behaviour.
China is now hoarding commodities at depressed prices.
And on the lighter side, Jane Fonda starred in “The China Syndrome”. Sequel???
Valid in some points but over optimistic about the world turning back to just carrying on as before. It will not: a wakeup call means looking at very many factors we have taken for granted, A real look at China. A real look at endless “growth”, since nothing goes on growing forever. Word finance, politics, and how the real crisis is the HUMAN climate, not weather and climate beyond our control anyway. This does NOT mean centralised global left wing control.
Will the Democrats make any Sacrifices will Al Gore make some Sacrifices will Leonardo DiCaprio or Laurie David make any sacrifices in their lifestyles of the Spoiled and Hypocritical? I don’t think so these DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO LIBERALS
“All the dire predictions made in the 1990s and 2000s never came to pass”
The relative insignificance of humans on a planetary scale.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/30/the-humans-must-save-the-planet/
I wonder if any of the politicians such as Biden will back off on the sacrifices they are advocating?
There was the whining by Obama about the Trump admin rolling back his ridiculous fuel standards. Bernie and his AOC sidekick can’t shut up about the need to enact a Green New Deal and Pelosi tried to sneak some green nonsense into the Wuhan virus bail-out bill. So it doesn’t seem so as of yet. But have them pushing it going into the next election I hope to see the Democrats punished in the voting booth.
I never was ever worried a bout Global warming/Climate Change because its just another fake crisis being used by the Globalists to force us to surrender all our Freedoms and Liberty to the Globalists and their plans for the World Government why else was the United Nations created for not for Peace no Doves living there way too many Vultures and its time for the Eagle to leave as well