You've heard of COVID lockdowns, but are you ready for “climate lockdowns”?
Conservative thinkers are raising the alarm about the possibility COVID lockdowns could morph into “climate lockdowns”. Some speculate the government, using the pandemic as a blueprint, could limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures.
“The concept of a climate lockdown doesn’t require legislation out of Congress. The idea is that this would all be done through the Environmental Protection Agency,” Chuck DeVore, with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said. “People have theorized [it] could be done through regulation, not legislation.”
That leads us to the poll question this morning.