Anne-Marie Slaughter, who served in the Obama administration as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Director of Policy Planning, wrote a Sunday column in the New York Times saying some coronavirus effects might be beneficial to our planet.
“We are also suddenly living in a world that the United States government long insisted was impossible — one of a drastically reduced plane and car emissions,” Slaughter wrote in her column.
“That is terrible for the airlines but good for the planet. It may be good for us, too,” she added.
But while Slaughter says the coronavirus-prompted drop in emissions might be good for our planet, experts say the drop in emissions will not have much of an impact when we go back to “business as usual.”
“The damage from CO2 just accumulates, so every ton we don’t release is not inflicted on the environment, but if everything goes back to business as usual when this ends, it won’t have much of an impact,” said David Archer, a professor of geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago.
Slaughter went on to say that many changes that were predicted to happen over a span of decades are happening over “the span of weeks.”
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“The coronavirus, and its economic and social fallout, is a time machine to the future. Changes that many of us predicted would happen over decades are instead taking place in the span of weeks.”
As for some of those changes, she called in her column for a shift from working in an office environment to a work-from-home environment:
And now that we’re all at home, what to do with our empty office buildings? Given the housing crises in so many cities, the answer seems obvious. Much commercial real estate could be transformed into apartments.
All the municipalities that are imposing moratoriums on evictions should be willing to experiment in the months ahead.
She also criticized the Trump administration and Fox News for what she says is their lack of response to the crisis, saying “it took Fox News weeks to realize that the coronavirus was not a Democratic hoax to make people mad at President Trump.”
(Fox News has been relentless in its coverage from the very beginning. So much so that even longtime viewers are complaining that they aren’t covering other news. –CCD Editor)
“This crisis has exposed the deep fissures and failures in our culture and the incompetence of so many of our federal leaders,” she said. (Slaughter left out the media’s failures, which are seeing record-low approval ratings for politicizing the pandemic. –CCD editor)
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I’m so over the climate change lie. It’s apparent Anne-Marie Slaughter is very well named. She would love to sacrifice billions of souls to be one of the rulers of earth with about 50 million inhabitants.
If Anne-Marie Slaughter believes that the pandemic has been so good for emissions doesn’t that mean the Paris Treaty is no longer needed? The article did point out that the reduction was temporary but it sounds like Slaughter wasn’t aware of that.
My son is a software engineer and is telecommuting due to the pandemic. He does so by logging into the computing equipment at his company. If, as Slaughter suggests, that company’s space was converted to an apartment, what would be done with the computing equipment? Perhaps put it in the street in a tent?
The worst pollution is Mind Pollution and its that which is keeping kids awake all night over this Global Warming/Climate Change lie
You are 100% correct. It is the biggest lie, and people are dumb enough to believe it. The climate has been changing forever, and will continue to do so, with or without humans. In 1920 or 1919, there were all these same scare tactics being imposed on people. Goggle it. That was a day or two before the SUV. If you read that article, it is as if it was written today. The Elites started the ball on this BS a long time ago. Just another tax grab, and seller of Wind Mills, that puts millions into the pockets of these criminals, while doing little for energy.
Kill the humans and save the planet?
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/01/13/human-pollution-the-planet-is-doomed/