TAR. FEATHERS. Joel Kotkin: Climate Policy: Covid on Steroids?

For most people around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic seems a great human tragedy, with deaths, bankruptcies, and fractured mental states. Yet for some, especially among the green Twitterati and in some policy shops, the pandemic presents a grand opportunity to enact permanent lockdowns on economic growth, population growth, and upward mobility.

Remember, they don’t see making ordinary people’s lives worse as collateral damage. They see it as a collateral benefit. Or maybe as the goal.