Thread: many smart and eloquent people articulating what coronavirus shows us about the climate crisis. We can find hope and use the economic recovery to build a sustainable and equitable future. #Coronavirus #ClimateCrisis #JustTransition #renewableenergy
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Rebecca Solnit helps us see how to find hope. "A new awareness of how each of us belongs to the whole and depends on it may strengthen the case for meaningful climate action, as we learn that sudden and profound change is possible after all.”bit.ly/3ebFxDF
David Roberts offers concrete policy ideas to build the economy and address climate: "Investments should be geared toward bolstering, and attracting private investment to cleaner alternatives like renewable energy and electric vehicles." bit.ly/2RbnVy1
This is the approach supported overwhelmingly by Americans bit.ly/2RsWOhZ
And by @IEABirol, the former head of the International Energy Agency. bit.ly/2QNOGbH
“Once states transition from virus containment mode to recovery mode, decarbonization can actually be a driver of economic recovery, as opposed to a hindrance." bit.ly/2RrVITv
"Bold climate action could deliver at least $26 trillion in net global economic benefits between now and 2030 compared with business-as-usual according to the New Climate Economy." bit.ly/38Z8wqw
“While shoring up the economy from the coronavirus fallout, it’s responsible to address that future crisis, and help create millions of good-paying jobs in the clean energy sector while we’re at it.”bit.ly/3bnIMWq
@MiroBTV and @BurlingtonElec have already started Vermont on this path with their strong #ClimateLeadership. bit.ly/39Qs3tx
As the Feds refuse to consider investments in resiliency, we hear more voices calling for exactly this solution. Building resilience is the way to move forward from the crisis of corona.
"We need to design the stimulus not only to help the U.S. economy recover but to also become more resilient to the climate crisis, the next multitrillion-dollar crisis headed our way." nyti.ms/2yk8e0W
“There are certain things you can do in an economic stimulus that address the near-term need to create jobs... But you can also have this very positive longer-term dynamic by creating markets for clean energy." said Joseph Aldy, of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government
Investing in green technologies worked in 2008 and it can work again to restart our economy in the wake of covid-19. #GreenStimulus #renewableenergy #ClimateAction
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