European Green New Deal advisor sees ‘ecological benefits’ to COVID-19 lockdowns – Seeks ‘a planned approach to reducing unnecessary industrial activity’

Dr Jason Hickel, lecturer in economic anthropology at Goldsmiths University and member of the advisory board of the Green New Deal for Europe, said:

“When you do scale down energy use and industrial production then it does have these ecological benefits but the crucial thing to observe here is that this is happening in an unplanned, chaotic way which is hurting peoples’ lives. We would never advocate for such a thing in climate policy. What we need is a planned approach to reducing unnecessary industrial activity that has no connection to human welfare and that also disproportionately benefits already wealthy people as opposed to ordinary people. So, there are much more equitable, just, and carefully planned ways to approach this kind of problem than what is happening now.”

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Climate Depot Response: "Dr. Hickel likes the 'ecological benefits' of the lockdowns, but what galls Hickel is that he wants the lockdowns to be 'planned' so that he and his academic colleagues can be in charge of crafting their vision of a utopian world which he explains is 'reducing unnecessary industrial activity.'  The climate campaigners see a post coronavirus world defined by fear of 'climate change' and they are seeking to remake societies from their university offices instead of letting free people and free economies thrive." -

Ronald Reagan: “The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.”