Open AccessPlanet Mayday: COVID-19 and Global Warming
Author(s) -
Jan-Erik Lane
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of economics and public finance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2377-1046
pISSN - 2377-1038
DOI - 10.22158/jepf.v6n2p123
Subject(s) - covid-19 , global warming , planet , argument (complex analysis) , climate change , political science , environmental science , geology , physics , oceanography , virology , biochemistry , chemistry , biology , medicine , disease , pathology , outbreak , astrophysics , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Has COVID-19 changed the world forever? Is it the signal to treat Nature differently and mobilise effective policies against global warming? Well-known commentators on climate change argue thus, but this argument is wrong. COVID-19 is entirely different from global warming. And COVID-19 will ruin the states: How to pay for both lockdown and energy transformation?