THE NEXT BIG THING IN CLIMATE COMMUNICATION: THE GUILLOTINE

CUT OFF THEIR HEADS, AND THEIR CARBON FOOTPRINT WILL SURELY FOLLOW

The Left and the Climate Crisis After the Pandemic

AN INTERVIEW WITH ADRIENNE BULLER BY DANIEL FLYNN

In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, many hoped it would contain an inadvertent silver lining, in the form of reduced carbon emissions. But the real lesson of the past few months is now clear: we can’t stop global warming without radical systemic change.

DF

It does give the lie, doesn’t it, to the idea that you could address the climate crisis in some kind of meaningful way through individual consumer choices and behavior. The idea of people being conscious about their carbon footprint.

AB

Yeah, I think it really underscored just how structurally embedded so much of our emissions profile is...

The cruel irony of some of these things is that ... people have turned to resource extraction in a new way to make up for that. So, deforestation is up 77 percent over the average for the past three years, as a direct result of the lockdown.