Lessons about climate change for government from COVID-19

Given three decades of failure—the equivalent of the precious weeks wasted before governments reacted seriously to COVID-19—the emergency treatment now required must be a regulated and managed decline of fossil fuel production.

Fort McMurray, Alta., pictured. Fossil-producing regions could have a few more years of fossil production that do make money while a Green New Deal-style plan builds out renewable potential that will, in time, create a much more stable and resilient, less fossil-flammable economy, writes Bill Henderson. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BILL HENDERSON

April 27, 2020

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