The queue for financial
bailouts from the lock-down is getting longer, with not only Richard Branson,
Victoria Beckham, and various owners of huge grouse-slaughtering estates in
Scotland seeking support from the UK government (aka UK tax payers), but also
the Trump Organisation . Yes, that Trump, the
sarcastic one, because seemingly his loss-making golf courses are now making
even bigger losses. Not that losses from golf courses are his biggest problem just now.
Christiana Figueres pointed out, in the recent BBC radio
programme Fallout, that
there are some important parallels in dealing with Corona virus and with the climate
& ecological emergency. In particular, those countries which understood the
science and the need to give speedy attention to areas of high probability
&, high impact risk, are those which have done much better in mitigating
the problems. Those countries led by idiots or sociopaths not so much.
When it comes to giving public funding to help prop up
business affected by the pandemic, the choice seems very clear – we can follow
the clamour from the greedy rich, and return to an unsustainable “normal” which
created the environmental mayhem in the first place, or we can take the
opportunity to support those businesses which help us move towards a
sustainable and regenerative way of being.
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