https://time.com/5953374/climate-is-everything/
The Pandemic Remade Every Corner of Society. Now It’s the Climate’s Turn
BY JUSTIN WORLAND
Excerpts:
Time Mag: Instead of turning to a select few environment-focused agencies to make climate policy, McCarthy and her office are working to infuse climate considerations into everything the Administration does. The task force she runs includes everyone from the Secretary of Defense, who is evaluating the climate threat to national security, to the Treasury Secretary, who is working to stem the risk that climate change poses to the financial system. …
Ali Zaidi, McCarthy’s deputy. “We can tackle the breadth of the climate challenge and the opportunity if we map the intersections with housing policy, and the intersection with racial justice, and the intersection with public health.” …
Climate is everything
Now, spurred by alarming science, growing public fury and a deadly pandemic, government officials, corporate bosses and civil-society leaders are finally waking up to a simple idea whose time has come: climate is everything. …
The course of climatization—the process by which climate change will transform society—will play out in the coming years in every corner of society. …
“We are at the point where climate change means systems change—and almost every system will change,” says Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a longtime climate leader. …
Gore cautioned in his 1992 book, Earth in the Balance, that humans need to make the “rescue of the environment the central organizing principle for civilization” or risk losing everything. …
And in 2014, author and activist Naomi Klein wrote This Changes Everything, arguing that climate change required a reimagination of our economy. Still, for a time, the issue remained a marginal concern for most. …
“The climate crisis touches virtually every part of our lived experience, whether it’s our health, or our jobs and the economy,” Varshini Prakash, a Sunrise Movement co-founder, told TIME in 2019, calling the Green New Deal a “decades-long project to revitalize our economy, to stop climate change and to ensure racial and economic equity.” …
The COVID-19 pandemic has given the E.U. the perfect opportunity to accelerate the remaking of its economic agenda with climate at its core—what Sefcovic calls the “new economy of the 21st century.” …
The E.U. has begun the process of linking its climate and trade agendas with a tax on high-carbon imports, penalizing countries slow to act on climate change. Biden has elevated the issue as a diplomatic priority. “Every dialogue that we have we’re trying to drive ambition,” says John Kerry, Biden’s climate envoy and a former U.S. Secretary of State.
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Climate Is Everything: How the pandemic can lead us to a better, greener world https://t.co/AhHEIkksj6 pic.twitter.com/uZuhljx6Jl
— TIME (@TIME) April 15, 2021
45 years ago, @TIME said global cooling was going to kill us. Now they say global warming is going to kill us. But neither of those is the threat – the real problem is fake news controlling the agenda.https://t.co/2f4xTSsrCP pic.twitter.com/NfoSKhDI4A
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) April 15, 2021
Thirty years of climate treaties and the lockdowns had no impact on the growth of atmospheric CO2, yet @TIME keeps promoting the same fake news over and over again. Who is paying for this massive scam? pic.twitter.com/0UjdV5yQ9F
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) April 15, 2021
Anyone who has ever visited a natural history museum knows that earth had very verdant forests in the past, when CO2 levels were much higher. It is unfortunate that writers at @TIME magazine are so ignorant about science and history. pic.twitter.com/iNKIuQzpgD
— Tony Heller (@Tony__Heller) April 16, 2021
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