The Pandemic was fun while it lasted, but it’s time it faded back and we got on with the next stage.Please read the directions listed below for the route that a real human being recommends to get from there to here. The latest IPCC report on climate change was released last week, and has signalled a sea-change in the ongoing “big issue”. It takes many hours to drive between these entrances, so be sure to check the status of. Yellowstone has five entrance stations, and several are closed to regular vehicles during winter. Yellowstone National Park covers nearly 3,500 square miles in the northwest corner of Wyoming (3 of the park is in Montana and 1 is in Idaho).
His article isn’t about the future, anyway, it’s all about the past.It’s tracking the tools deployed during the “pandemic”, and how effective they were. We are following the science and as we continue to do so, we will successfully tackle climate-change issues in the same way we faced down the coronavirus.”He never outright states what this “same way” is, exactly, but it’s not really hard to imagine what he means. And this piece is no exception.He headlines “Treat people like grown-ups and they will fight climate change like Covid-19”, adding :Education works. He’s always right there saying the right thing at the right time. The goblinoid face of the establishment, who nauseatingly cheered on Blair in Iraq, can always be relied upon to keep on message.
Without it, there will be no public support for the hard decisions on transport, heating and land use.”The whole thing reads that way, like a cross between a press release and a progress report. Public understanding of science has become a security issue. This shaped how Germans, Americans, the French and British – and many more – responded, and allowed societies to change direction faster than anyone would have predicted.”How easily the media were able to spread misinformation that controlled public opinion:The media, so often blamed for almost everything, found new ways to explain complex scientific arguments in ways that most people understood.”And how these lessons can be applied to messaging on climate change going forward:This is a core lesson that needs to be learned, as we hinge from Covid to climate. By and large, they were wrong.
Harder than Covid, in some ways, because people are so much more used to climate alarm calls. It’s obvious that the press are prepping the groundwork to leave Covid behind, and turn their focus to the next stage of the Great Reset.But, all that said, it will be a difficult sell. Does this mean that the pandemic is over?Not “over”, but certainly on the decline.
It will end raggedly and slowly and politicians who proclaim victory will quickly sound foolishit will probably feel as if we have beaten this thing.Before adding the ubiquitous riders that will keep the “threat” of the Covid alive in the public imagination:The Delta variant may be the most contagious virus ever can reinfect the double-vaccinated Britain is going to face a period of “bumpiness” in transmission rates and uncertainty about the near future the winter may be tough Booster jabs will become routine.”There’s clearly a plan in place. We won’t ever win it, but it will disappear from headlines until they need to shock or distract people.Marr, for example, doesn’t declare the pandemic over, instead he says:The pandemic is not, of course, yet over. Ready to bring it back to the boil should the need arise.We’re being told the disease will be endemic, but that “Delta has changed the endgame” and that “herd immunity is impossible”The pandemic is becoming a new forever war, akin to the war on terror.
Emphasise that Climate Change is much more of a threat than Covid. Point out all the ways Covid and climate change are similar. This has been bubbling along in the background for months (I have already written two articles about it), but the message is being refined into a simple three-step process: Mostly because they’re telling us.Establishment voices have already talked about “climate lockdowns”, and the UK’s Science Advisor Patrick Vallance wrote, last week, about how:Nothing short of transforming society will avert catastrophe”This isn’t new.
Australian and Chinese academics estimate that around five million people are dying each year from the effects of climate change Suffice it to say that even if the Delta variant is the most infectious disease mankind has so far faced, the climate emergency is at another level – a reshaper of geography, highly unpredictable and, in short, existential for the planet and its inhabitants.Patrick Vallance does the same in his article in the Guardian, and then again in The Times. So far, a little over 4.3 million people have died from Covid. Argue that since we were willing to change to fight Covid, we should do the same for climate.The interesting thing is that so much of the world’s experience during the pandemic relates quite closely to the climate crisis – our human interrelatedness, the importance of effective governance, the centrality of science and its communication.Followed by the “covid is worse” :Of course, the two challenges are different.
There’s always talk of other schemes, like limiting flights, outlawing beef and “personal carbon allowances”, but these are hardly new.Andrew Marr’s article contains a couple of hints. But what are these hypothetical actions going to be?Are we seeing any hints as to what this “transformation of society” might entail? Or what these “tough decisions” could be?Well, there were whispers of climate lockdowns, but they have died away since the outraged reaction. There are lots of articles comparing “covid denial” and “climate denial”, or otherwise attempting to politicise the issue.So, the way they’re going to talk about (or should we say say “market”?) climate change action is fairly clear.
I suspect partly to stop the spread of what Marr calls “an outbreak of conspiracy theories in new media”, but mostly because they’re not sure exactly what they want to do yet, and they don’t believe the majority mentally prepared enough. The state includes the NHS, national science labs, networks of experts I now feel we should spend less time on the distracting national puppet show and more time thinking about what I might delicately call the deeper sources of authority.”(Attacking democracy for hampering “drastic efforts” is a concerning trend, one to watch out for)Mostly, though, the mainstream voices are being very quiet on specifics.
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