Left-wing politicians have woken up to the fact that the coronavirus pandemic “would be a terrible crisis to waste,” in the words of Hillary Clinton.
Now a group of wealthy Hollywood stars is also capitalizing on the crisis to push a sweeping climate change agenda.
Celebrities including Robert De Niro, Madonna, Barbra Streisand, Jane Fonda, and Joaquin Phoenix have signed their names to an editorial published Wednesday in France’s largest newspaper, Le Monde, demanding a total overhaul of economies around the world in the name of saving the environment and fighting global warming.
“The Covid-19 pandemic is a tragedy. This crisis, however, has an upside in giving us the chance to examine what is essential,” the editorial says.
“The ongoing ecological catastrophe is a ‘meta-crisis’: the massive extinction of life on Earth is no longer in doubt, and all indicators point to a direct existential threat. Unlike a pandemic, however serious it may be, it’s a question of a global ecological collapse whose effects will be immeasurable.”
The article, titled “No to a Return to Normal,” was co-authored by actress Juliette Binoche and astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, who both wrote a similar article in Le Monde in 2018, in which they warned that a massive extinction event was currently underway.
Their new article argues that it is “unthinkable to ‘go back to normal’” following the coronavirus pandemic.
“Consumerism has led us to deny the value of life itself: that of plants, that of animals, and that of a large number of human beings. Pollution, climate change, and the destruction of natural spaces have brought the world to a breaking point,” they wrote.
“For these reasons, along with growing social inequalities, we believe it is unthinkable to ‘go back to normal.’”
Other signatories include actors Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Jeremy Irons, and Willem Dafoe.
Oscar-winning filmmakers Alfonso Cuaron, Spike Jonze, Pedro Almodovar, and Alejandro G. Inarritu also signed the editorial.
A growing number of celebrities have linked the Wuhan coronavirus with climate change activism.
Jane Fonda recently called for coronavirus recovery money to go toward green or sustainable energy as well as to efforts to create a “level playing field” for workers.
Filmmaker Michael Moore recently said in his podcast that the coronavirus is Earth’s slap in our collective face, adding that the pandemic is nature “trying to tell our species to back off, slow down, and change your ways.”
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And how many of the
SCUMBUCKET celebrities
Practice what they preach ?!
I propose, as a first step to addressing climate change and overhauling economies, that the undersigned’s wealth be confiscated and used to rehabilitate penguin rookeries and polar bear habitat.
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I am all for that. As soon as they donated 99% of their wealth to the green energy scum and also agree to pay a 95% tax rate.
If you listen to these folks and reduce CO2 (carbon dioxide) to zero you will kill all the plants and life on Earth including themselves. Plants are the source of our food without them life will cease. Plants grow by a process called “photosynthesis” which requires CO2, sunlight, water and nutrients from the soil to work (oxygen which we use in breathing is a by-product). The absence of any one of these and you murder the plant and kill your neighbors. If the atmospheric level of CO2 is reduced to 150 ppm (parts per million) you end life. Current CO2 levels are 410 ppm. We need more CO2 not less. CO2 is the source of a greener and lusher planet…not the other way around. If you are a tree “hugger” CO2 is your ticket.
And is should ask n just when will they stop making movies with all that Electronic lights and cameras around them sd just when will they stop making movies and take up living in a cave or a Hut and live like Hermit? ar away from the rest of us and just when will they hop board Cher’s Rocket ad go live on Saturn?Time for them to start putting their money where their mouths are
Reading this article, I thought of a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. A Holstein cow was used as catapult ammunition. Desperate. Farcical.
“Unlike a pandemic, however serious it may be, it’s a question of a global ecological collapse whose effects will be immeasurable.”
OMG! OMG!
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/03/15/noaas-ark/
Of the few names that I recognize, they may have been “celebrities” way-back-when, now they’re just “has-been’s”.