{"id":338409,"date":"2021-09-13T03:59:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/get-ready-for-climate-change-emergency-lockdowns\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T03:59:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T00:59:47","slug":"get-ready-for-climate-change-emergency-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/get-ready-for-climate-change-emergency-lockdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"#Get ready for climate-change &#8217;emergency&#8217; lockdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Get ready for climate-change &#8217;emergency&#8217; lockdowns<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>President Biden claims recent hurricanes prove we\u2019re in a \u201cclimate crisis\u201d \u2014 \u201ccode red\u201d for the world, he warns. White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy adds that climate is now a \u201chealth emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s convenient for politicians to treat every hurricane, tornado and flood as an apocalyptic sign from Gaia \u2014 and then blame political apostates for offending the goddess. But it\u2019s an irrational way to think about the world. Because our situation is, in most ways,\u00a0quantifiably better than before on nearly every front.<\/p>\n<p>This reality is probably difficult to accept for a generation subjected to decades of fearmongering, but climate anomalies are nothing new. When a freak snowstorm hit Texas\u00a0this year, the administration used it to push draconian policies. But the Texas storm was no different than the rare 1973 blizzard that hit the South. It h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ens. And there\u2019s nothing we can do.<\/p>\n<p>While victims of Ida will take no solace in this fact, historically speaking, hurricanes aren\u2019t touching land at higher frequencies, either. Nor is there evidence that storms that make landfall do so with more intensity than in previous years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, they aren\u2019t any more dangerous. Back in 1900, the Great Galveston hurricane likely killed some 10,000 people in Texas. In 1926, the Great Miami hurricane killed 372, causing an estimated, inflation-adjusted $157 billion in damage. Only around 150,000 people lived in all of Dade County in those days. When Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, it was a Category Three. Most of the damage had to do with how ill-prepared the city was for any storm.<\/p>\n<p>As Biden has pointed out, hurricanes are less destructive, because governments and companies adapt and prepare. Acclimatizing to the realities of climate change are far cheaper and more moral than the state-compelled dismantling of modernity.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, climate has always been bad for our health. We\u2019ve spent most of human existence attempting to mitigate its destructive power. Today, people still tragically die from, say, extreme heat (air conditioners save far more lives!). But overall, deaths due to nature have dramatically plummeted during the past century, falling over 98 percent since 1900. Weather accounts for somewhere around 0.07 percent of worldwide deaths. We\u2019re safer, even though far more people live in areas with extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>And the notion that places such as Central America and the Middle East are \u00adexperiencing conflicts and \u00admigration because of some unique climate changes ignores the entirety of history.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Hurricane-Ida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Joshua Fisher dumps debris into a pile as he helps gut a family member's flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, La., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. \" class=\"wp-image-19432336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Hurricane-Ida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Hurricane-Ida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/Hurricane-Ida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Joshua Fisher dumps debris into a pile as he helps gut a family member\u2019s flooded home in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, La., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Gerald Herbert<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By claiming we are in an unprecedented crisis, we distort not only a proper understanding of our technological abilities, but our moral outlook as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ponder this rhetorical question, posed by a columnist at The Hill: \u201cCould climate change finally expose China as a global outlaw?\u201d So it wasn\u2019t the concentration camps that did it. Or the ethnic cleansing. Or the slave labor. Or the decades of collectivist-induced economic misery and authoritarian control. Or the state censorship. It was Beijing\u2019s violations of\u00a0the Paris Accord.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, certain pundits have been openly envious of the ability of Chinese Communists to compel their citizens to adopt carbon-mitigation policies. The commissars must be such a disappointment to them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The problem, though, is that today\u2019s progressives often embrace illiberal ideas as a means of solving the climate \u201ccrisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/California-Budget.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"a firefighter lights a backfire to stop the Caldor Fire from spreading near South Lake Tahoe, Calif. \" class=\"wp-image-19432362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/California-Budget.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/California-Budget.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/California-Budget.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A firefighter lights a backfire to stop the Caldor Fire from spreading near South Lake Tahoe, Calif. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Jae C. Hong, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As a recent Nature journal piece notes, COVID-19 lockdowns have prepared people for \u201cpersonal carbon allowances.\u201d Restrictions on individual freedoms \u201cthat were unthinkable only one year before\u201d have us \u201cmore prepared to accept the tracking and limitations\u201d to \u201cachieve a safer climate,\u201d the piece notes.<\/p>\n<p>And many self-professed defenders of our \u201cdemocracy\u201d have been clamoring for the Department of Health and Human Services to take unilateral action and treat climate as a \u201cpublic-health issue\u201d or to declare a \u201cclimate emergency.\u201d The White House has given the issue a required identity-based twist, noting that global warming\u2019s risks \u201cdisproportionately affect poor and minority communities.\u201d (Which reminds me of P. J. O\u2019Rourke\u2019s old joke about NPR coverage: \u201cWorld To End \u2014 Poor and Minorities Hardest-Hit.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Americans experienced the authoritarian reach of government during the pandemic. We see what normalizing those ideas can look like in Australia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carbon emissions are embedded into nearly everything in our economy. If Democrats believe that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be empowered to declare an eviction moratorium and unilaterally discard property rights, you can imagine what sort of things await this nation if they can declare climate change an \u201cemergency.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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White House climate adviser Gina McCarthy adds that climate is now a \u201chealth emergency.\u201d It\u2019s convenient for politicians to treat every hurricane, tornado and flood as an apocalyptic sign from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/09\/biden-8.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[115835,43485,71640,67243],"class_list":["post-338409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-9-12-21","tag-climate-change","tag-hurricanes","tag-lockdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}