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And also reduced our basic freedom, our economies, and placed millions into poverty.

Covid isn’t a good example of a sustainable balancing of the environment over human activity.

To be fair, our lifestyles weren't sustainable in the first place. That's kind of the point.

Of course it would have an economic impact, but our economy has been unsustainable for a long time.

The lockdown is/was an extraordinarily shitty situation for a lot of people and is therefore not a permanent solution for climate change.

I understand that some climate change deniers may be motivated by their belief that the adaptations we would have to make to reverse it would negatively impact the economy. Interestingly enough, the those change that covid has forced have had devastating economic impacts.

I wouldn’t count on that. A lot of people are already brisling against the restrictions imposed in response to the pandemic despite the virus actually existing — I doubt they would be sustainable once this crisis has passed.