Climate Policy: COVID on Steroids?

Activists push an inflatable globe during a "Global March" as part of the People's Summit for Social and Environmental Justice in Defense of the Commons, a parallel event during the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 20, 2012. Felipe Dana/AP Photo

Commentary

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.