The lockdowns under the Covid regime, looking back were incredible, that while there was some resistance, there was nothing like the not-much-publicized revolt that occurred back in 1918, when people simply refused to wear masks, after seeing the double standard of the ruling elites who were not wearing their masks. We had the same thing, but not the same opposition. And the lockdowns were mechanical, despite wrecking people's livelihoods. As noted in the extract below, lockdowns based upon climate change are a distinct possibility, as the climate elites noticed that reduced economic activity mean, less dreaded carbon produced, obviously enough.
While agreeing with the below argument that the climate lockdowns are quite possible, my own feeling is that climate issues do not have the personal impact that disease has, where one by media frenzy, literally fears for one's life. My feeling is that bird flu could become, over the next few months be the new Covid. And this time it is a dangerous infection, even if produced in some bioweapons factory. We need to be vigilant.
https://americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/climate_lockdowns_next.html
"Since the COVID scare worked so well for the left, could a climate lockdown be next?
We all vividly recall the absurd COVID lockdowns. While they had no effect on the spread of illness, the imposed restrictions certainly proved that a large segment of the population was easily compelled to come to heel and submit to the government's outrageous demands. Given the facts I provide in my new book, Climate Cult: Exposing and Defeating Their War on Life, Liberty, and Property, such a scheme should come as no surprise, especially given that the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats are priming the pump with talk of executive action to declare a "climate emergency."
As I reveal in the book, the first individuals to contend the environment was in peril due to human behavior were direct disciples of Karl Marx. Their contempt for capitalism and private property motivated them to conjure up a fallacious argument: the earth's ecosystem was being mutilated by the industrial revolution. In fact, Edwin Ray Lankester, a zoologist at University College, London and close friend of Marx, referred to humanity as "the insurgent sons of nature." Even Vladimir Lenin—a radical environmental preservationist—wrote
lengthy regulations placing Russia's natural resources off limits to his subjects. Millions died of starvation and hypothermia as a result.
In more recent decades, the climate agenda has been crafted by the United Nations with the United States and many European nations rushing to comply. It was a 1987 UN document entitled, Our Common Future, that officially introduced CO2 as not only the cause of global warming but a threat to world peace and an agent of economic inequality. Since then, the elites at the World Economic Forum have provided muscle for the United Nation's plans. In fact, a man the WEF describes as an agenda contributor, Yuval Noah Harari, pompously declared, "You can stop all flights, you can lockdown entire countries," to combat climate change.
Climate lockdowns have been discussed by Democrats for several years. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) introduced the Climate Emergency Act of 2021, co-sponsored by 62 congressional Democrats. The bill would "require the President to declare a national climate emergency under the National Emergencies Act, and for other purposes." Allowing President Biden to declare a climate emergency would provide the him with statutory powers that could be renewed should he gain a second term. The proposed Act reads like a communist takeover, demanding a "radically and socially just" plan to increase union membership, guarantee wages and benefits, promote social and environmental justice, expand the rainbow flag, and transition America to a carbon-free economy. Last July, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters, "He [the president] is going to do everything he can to take action. This climate emergency [decision] is not going to happen tomorrow but we still have it on the table." Eco-zealot Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), told Politico that he urged Biden to use emergency authority to enact radical climate change measures. "In the absence of congressional action it is critically important he use all of his powers."
And, of course, working in tandem with the Democrats on Capitol Hill, the UN has its own Climate Emergency webpage which states, "The science is clear. The world is in a state of climate emergency, and we need to shift into emergency gear."
Yes, the science is clear. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a requirement for life on Earth, and more is better. As for global warming, the geological record indicates past periods have been significantly warmer than today.
Given that CO2 represents .04 percent of all atmospheric gases and of that amount only four percent are derived from fossil fuels, we should all be reminded that the tail doesn't wag the dog. https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/05/06/bloomberg-migration-drives-up-housing-costs13-countries/
While there are other factors — such as the shift to less-productive service jobs [instead of manufacturing] and the fact that new arrivals [migrants] typically earn less — housing shortages and associated cost-of-living strains are a common thread.
The countries damaged by this immigration process include Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, and Britain, said the article, which tried to blame the housing prices on a "lack of [housing] supply," not on excessive migration. For example, in the United Kingdom, it said:
A shortage of properties for the bigger population has sent house prices to over eight times average earnings in England and Wales, and 12 times in London. In 1997, they were 3.5 times earnings and four times, respectively. A lack of supply has also caused rental costs to rocket at a record pace in the last 12 months, worsening a cost-of-living crisis for young Britons especially. Breitbart News reported on May 6 that younger U.S. workers are losing hope of ever buying homes amid President Joe Biden's massive inflow of roughly 10 million lower-skilled legal, illegal, and quasi-legal migrants:
Pessimism among renters about the ability to ever own a home is worsening, with the expectations of someday owning a home falling to a new all-time low, a survey released Monday by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York showed.
The average probability of buying a home, according to renters in the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations, fell to 40.1 percent. That's down from 44.4 percent a year ago and the lowest in records stretching back a decade.
In high-migration Germany, "industrial productivity is declining at a shocking annual pace of 5 per cent," the Financial Times reported May 6:
Worse, high housing costs are reducing birth rates, Bloomberg noted:
[Indian-born Akanksha] Biswas [lives in Canada and] spends more than a third of her income on the monthly rent bill of C$2,800 ($2,050), splitting the cost with her partner. She's dining out less and making coffee at home instead of going to the cafe. She's also pushing back plans to have children or buy a home. "I don't see my future here if I want to raise a family," she says.
But the fix for the damage caused by migration is more migration, said Bloomberg, which is written for investors who gain from a larger population:
The longer voters in the UK, Australia, Canada and similar economies see their living standards go backwards, the more their opposition to rapid immigration programs will harden. A lasting fix requires government policies, especially in housing, that convince both would-be migrants and the existing populations of the benefits of immigration-led economic growth.
The extra immigrants will be used to build housing for current migrants, Bloomberg said. "Skills shortages across much of the developed world mean more, not fewer,
workers are needed," said the article, which is headlined "Global Housing Shortages Are Crushing Immigration-Fueled Growth."
Yet public opinion is running against more migration, lamented Bloomberg. "Immigration shapes up as a defining issue in the November presidential election," said the article. Bloomberg News is owned by Michael Bloomberg, who is a prominent advocate for more migration.
Few politicians have noted the problem. But GOP Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) spotlighting the role of migration in rising home costs:
Bloomberg's admission comes as more economic elites admit that migration is impoverishing Western families and diverting investment from industry — even as China's emphasis on automation and workplace productivity is expanding its economic clout and employees' wages.
"All the available evidence indicates that China's remarkable export performance is driven by manufacturing productivity due to investment in robotics and AI applications," said David Goldman, an author at Asia Times.
"I can argue, in the developed countries, the big winners are the countries that have shrinking populations," BlackRock founder Larry Fink said at an April 29 event hosted by the World Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia. He continued:
These countries [such as China and Japan] will rapidly develop robotics and AI and technology … If a promise of all that transforms productivity, which most of us think it will [emphasis added] — we'll be able to elevate the standard living in countries, the standard of living for individuals, even with shrinking populations.
"Many policymakers have recently argued that migration is helping contain price rises by relieving labour shortages … Yet the evidence is weak and may, in fact, point in the opposite direction, the Economist magazine said on April 30. It added:
Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of rental housing, which is in short supply across the anglosphere. Research by Goldman Sachs, a bank, suggests that in Australia each 100,000 increase in annual net overseas migration boosts rents by about 1%.
In the United States, "abundant labor coming across the border" is reducing the wages paid to Americans, Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said in April.