Lockdown is good for the climate. But it’s a damn the economy, full speed ahead strategy. We could also stop eating and leave the planet to the birds and fish, who thrive during lockdown. However . . .

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. . . We can also ask what about the people?

“We have to head toward the new normality because the national economy and the well-being of the people depends on it,” says Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

Or as Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan wrote on Twitter, “We sought a total lockdown without thinking about the consequences for the daily wage earners, the street vendors, the laborers, all of whom face poverty and hunger. . . . May Allah forgive us.”

Indeed.

via Coronavirus and the Climate – WSJ

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Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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