Hank: during the pandemic slowdown the world will have fewer resources to free itself from the carbon economy (2020)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2020-08-21) · owner: Hank
In August 2020 Hank said that during the pandemic slowdown the world would not be focused on climate change and would have fewer resources to free itself from the carbon economy.
Told alongside: Hank: the ultimate impact of the pandemic's standout bad actors may never be known (2020)
About: fossil fuel, climate change, COVID-19 pandemic
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-21 | predicted | Meanwhile we won't be focused on climate change, understandably, and won't have the resources we otherwise would have had to free ourselves from the carbon economy. | The Water's Getting Warm 00:02:14 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: Climate action will have costs, as combating this epidemic does, but they are much less bad than the cost of doing nothing. — 00:02:43
- 2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: Over the last six months Hank has watched collective action unlike anything he has seen in his lifetime, maybe ever. — 00:02:43
- 2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: There are some standout 'crap faces', but we don't know, and may never know, the ultimate impact of their terrible behavior. (playful, unsure) — 00:02:43
- 2020-08-21 · The Water's Getting Warm — Hank: Having seen collective action of the kind, if not the magnitude, climate change needs, Hank is more fearful of a less prosperous world but more hopeful, since people make sacrifices when they see what's on the line. — 00:03:12