Liberal Forum

COVID-19 "offers an opportunity to direct finances towards bolstering climate action.”

– United Nation’s Green Climate Fund 

"Let’s not let this crisis go to waste." Coronavirus offers "a chance to do capitalism differently." "Government has the upper hand, it must seize the moment." - Prof. Mariana Mazzucato of University College London in UK Guardian 
 

"Already, the coronavirus has achieved something that government policies and moral awakening couldn’t: it is pushing us into green living...we’ll look back on December 2019 as the all-time peak in global carbon emissions...Governments need to make good use of the current pandemic." - Simon Kuper - FT (Financial Times) Magazine columnist

ev drivers froze to death in winter storm. heater drained batteries. stuck in storm. doors frozen shut. death!

"The similarities between the causes of and solutions to the coronavirus and the climate crisis are nothing short of eerie." -- Mark Hertsgaard (Covering Climate) & Kyle Pope, editor in chief of the Columbia Journalism Review.