Actually this warning is nothing new.
https://www.forumforthefuture.org/Blog/ ... -emergency
Covid-19: a dress rehearsal for the climate emergency?
by Sally Uren March 12 2020 [yes, the day after the "characterised pandemic" was declared.
Sally Uren Chief Executive at Forum for the Future with overall responsibility for delivering Forum’s mission to accelerate a big shift towards a sustainable future by catalysing transformational change in global systems.
note the headings...
It could be a catalyst for financial reform.
The current situation is already giving us clues as to how a response to a crisis can have potential positive impacts. Playing these forward, I think there are at least three ways in which COVID-19 might also help with the climate emergency.
It could be a catalyst for financial reform.
The virus could provide a compelling reason for global leaders to re-examine how the economy could function differently – taking into account natural assets for example – and accelerate economic change.
C-19 could shift societal behaviour, and norms, for the better.
Some of the emerging behaviour changes could also help us to bring global carbon emissions under control – such as the move towards remote working and conferencing and a changing attitude towards travel. If just some of these shifts to on-line and less travel endure post the C19-crisis, we will have made positive progress towards decarbonisation.
COVID-19 could help us be better at living with uncertainty, experimenting and learning.
A rehearsal for the future?
In many ways, we could see the virus as a dress rehearsal for the kinds of disruption we are set to see in the next decade, as we urgently transform entire systems to achieve carbon neutrality.
closely followed by the Guardian April 21 2020 from an Australian perspective by Dr John Hewson, former leader of the Liberal party and chair of the Commission for the Human Future
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... re-science
Coronavirus is a dress rehearsal for what awaits us if governments continue to ignore science
May 4 2020Covid-19 and the health and medical, economic and other responses it has engendered occurred faster, and much more substantively, that anyone had imagined. Most would never have envisaged the restraints enforced on personal freedoms and movements to contain the infection, nor the extent ]it would be required to “crash” economies to cushion these responses. But the world has mostly accepted and is adjusting to these needs.
Our political leaders are throwing ideology to the wind – and coming up with policies and fixes that put people before politics. This is an inspiring indication that the global community can embrace essential change....
....In developing policy solutions it is imperative that they be based on science and accepted evidence. This essential process should see the development of a “new science” – the science of human survival and wellbeing.
https://ideas4development.org/en/covid- ... te-crisis/
COVID-19, A HUGE REHEARSAL FOR THE UPCOMING CLIMATE CRISIS?
by economist Étienne Espagne
https://ideas4development.org/en/covid- ... te-crisis/
Covid-19: a tipping point in the Capitalocene Era
-Is the Covid-19 pandemic a dress rehearsal for a climate crisis that will occur very soon? Is it acting as a catalyst in the widespread realization of the systemic ecological weaknesses generated by our modes of development? Will this realization – if it takes place – be strong enough to trigger a transition to escape the prevailing financial, economic, and geopolitical structures?
The Covid-19 crisis as a metaphor for the climate crisis
Covid-19 and climate change: solutions in common
Covid-19 and climate change are also similar in terms of the collective nature of the response to be made. In both cases, individual interests must be more strongly subordinated to the public interest. For example, young people, who are less exposed to the dangers of Covid-19, do not necessarily understand why they might have to be quarantined. The government, or the collective community, must be able to exert influence on individual choices so that the public interest is guaranteed. The experience of Covid-19 shows that individual behavior can change very quickly in the face of a radical, imminent, and highly uncertain threat. The responses we need to climate change should follow a very similar approach, i.e. pre-eminence of the collective interest, even though the signals may seem, as we shall see, more dispersed and less imminent.
July 14 2020 - the World Built Environment Forum of the RICS [Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
https://www.rics.org/uk/wbef/megatrends ... tastrophe/
KPMG itself on September 7 2020A dress rehearsal for climate catastrophe?
A radical suite of economic and social policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis have slowed the pandemic in countries across the world. So where is the appetite for similarly radical policy action on climate change?
https://home.kpmg/uk/en/home/media/pres ... hange.html
here's Sally Uren again - almost 6 months after her amazing crystal ball gazing in MarchDespite the postponement of COP26 in Glasgow, the COVID-19 pandemic appears to have accelerated consideration of climate change and social responsibility putting pressure on companies and politicians to ‘build back better’ and focus on a green recovery
Simon Weaver, Co-Head of Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy at KPMG UK, commented:
“Understanding the impacts on your business from climate change is no longer an ‘added extra’. It’s a core issue which we all, as corporate leaders, must respond to – not just from a wider purpose perspective, but crucially for the resilience of our own organisations. The Coronavirus pandemic was, to some extent, a dress-rehearsal for climate change.
How Covid-19 influenced the climate crisis - The Times & Sunday Times
Finally the UN Secretary General admits the same himself - September 21 2020
https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/sgsm20267.doc.htm
Can it not be more obvious how this staged pandemic is being used to push the climate agenda through?The pandemic is a crisis unlike any we have ever seen. But, it is also the kind of crisis that we will see in different forms again and again. COVID-19 is not only a wake-up call, it is a dress rehearsal for the world of challenges to come. We must move forward with humility, recognizing that a microscopic virus has brought the world to its knees.