{"id":58261,"date":"2021-06-15T06:45:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58261"},"modified":"2021-06-15T06:45:28","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:45:28","slug":"is-a-climate-lockdown-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58261","title":{"rendered":"Is a \u201cClimate Lockdown\u201d on the horizon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"before-post\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2021\/06\/10\/is-a-climate-lockdown-on-the-horizon\/\"><span class=\"the-title\">Is a \u201cClimate Lockdown\u201d on the horizon?<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_page-content post\">\n<p class=\"dropcap\">If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won\u2019t be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they\u2019ll be rebranded as \u201cclimate lockdowns\u201d, and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>At least, according to an article written by an employee of the WHO, and published by a mega-coporate think-tank.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s dive right in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>THE REPORT\u2019S AUTHOR AND BACKERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report, titled\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/Overview\/Panorama\/Articles\/Avoiding-a-climate-lockdown#:~:text=Under%20a%20%E2%80%9Cclimate%20lockdown%2C%E2%80%9D,structures%20and%20do%20capitalism%20differently.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAvoiding a climate lockdown\u201d<\/a><\/em>, was written by<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mariana_Mazzucato#cite_note-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0Mariana Mazzucato<\/a>, a professor of economics at University College London, and head of something called the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/13-11-2020-who-establishes-council-on-the-economics-of-health-for-all\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Council on the Economics of Health for All<\/a>, a division of the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>It was first published in October 2020 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Project_Syndicate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Syndicate<\/a>, a non-profit media organization that is (predictably) funded through grants from the Open society Foundation, the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/about?a_la=english&amp;a_d=&amp;a_m=&amp;a_a=click&amp;a_s=&amp;a_p=%2Fonpoint%2Fnew-fiscal-constitution-job-guarantee-by-mariana-mazzucato-and-robert-skidelsky-2020-07&amp;a_li=about-us&amp;a_pa=&amp;a_ps=&amp;a_ms=&amp;a_r=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many, many others<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After that, it was picked up and republished by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), which describes itself as\u00a0<em>\u201ca global, CEO-led organization of over 200 leading businesses working together to accelerate the transition to a sustainable world.\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The WBCSD\u2019s membership is essentially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbcsd.org\/Overview\/Our-members\/Members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">every major company in the world<\/a>, including Chevron, BP, Bayer, Walmart, Google and Microsoft. Over 200 members totalling well over 8 TRILLION dollars in annual revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In short: an economist who works for the WHO has written a report concerning \u201cclimate lockdowns\u201d, which has been published by both a Gates+Soros backed NGO AND a group representing almost every bank, oil company and tech giant on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it says, it clearly has the approval of the people who run the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT DOES IT SAY?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The text of the report itself is actually quite craftily constructed. It doesn\u2019t outright argue\u00a0<em>for<\/em> climate lockdowns, but instead discusses ways \u201cwe\u201d can prevent them.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is a \u201cClimate Lockdown\u201d on the horizon? If and when the powers-that-be decide to move on from their pandemic narrative, lockdowns won\u2019t be going anywhere. Instead it looks like they\u2019ll be rebranded as \u201cclimate lockdowns\u201d, and either enforced or simply held threateningly over the public\u2019s head. At least, according to an article written by an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6],"tags":[141,31341,31343,379,23436,2144,31342,24368,607,4204,878,10233],"class_list":["post-58261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-lockdown","tag-covid-lockdown","tag-government","tag-kit-knightly","tag-lockdown","tag-mariana-mazzucato","tag-off-guardian-2","tag-pandemic","tag-powers-that-be","tag-who","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58262,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58261\/revisions\/58262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}