A Pride of Lions led by a Crocodile
Hitler took the Rhineland back, then Sudetenland, because the West thought that he could be sated. But he was insatiable and success only made him hungrier. The governments have shut down industries and commerce to fight a virus we know little about. Now read this, by an academic woman who does not live in a gingerbread house:
Mariana Mazzucato, an author and a professor in innovative economics at the University of London, raised the prospect of climate lockdowns in MarketWatch last September:
‘Under a “climate lockdown”, governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.’
It is not precedent that encourages these people to act, it is opportunity.
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