{"id":258982,"date":"2023-05-24T20:25:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258982"},"modified":"2023-05-24T20:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:25:17","slug":"german-government-report-names-pandemic-lockdowns-as-precedent-for-climate-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=258982","title":{"rendered":"German Government Report Names Pandemic Lockdowns as Precedent for Climate Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Police uses water canons to clear a blocked a road between the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building, home of the German federal parliament, as people attend a protest rally in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020 against the coronavirus restrictions in Germany. Police in Berlin have requested thousands of reinforcements from other parts of Germany to cope with planned protests by people opposed to coronavirus restrictions. (AP Photo\/Michael Sohn)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0EUGYPPIUS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The German Advisory Council on the Environment is a body of experts convened by the Federal Republic of Germany to advise the state on matters of environmental policy. I\u2019m grateful to @tomdabassman on Twitter for drawing attention<\/a> to its recent and deeply creepy 200-page report on \u2018The obligation of policymakers: facilitating environmentally friendly behaviour<\/a>\u2018. It abounds in remarkable and revealing statement, and I\u2019ve spent a good part of the day studying it for a longer post that I hope to write in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For now, I want to draw your attention to the introduction, which is bad enough. Its authors depart from the premise that the state currently lacks \u201cpolicy measures\u2026 targeting environmentally relevant behaviour\u201d, and join others in affirming that it is the job of the state to nudge<\/a> individual decisions in the right direction. Tellingly, both the pandemic and the sanctions-induced European energy crisis play a very large role in their thinking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although the key environmental crises, such as loss of biodiversity and climate change, are less directly visible and tangible than the energy crisis and the pandemic, environmental policymakers can learn from the sometimes painful but also important experiences of recent years<\/strong>: Behavioural changes in the population can be a part of the solution to crises such as these, and it is possible to adopt and implement policies aimed at changing behaviours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, Germany introduced a series of measures in mid-2022 to alleviate the energy crisis. \u2026 These measures targeted the behaviour of citizens. In addition to general calls to save energy, building owners were obliged to optimise their heating systems, employees had to accept lower room temperatures at work and it was forbidden to heat private swimming pools. \u2026. Earlier, Germany imposed far-reaching pandemic measures to contain the spread of Corona<\/strong>. For example, since 2020, the stated adopted and imposed various lockdowns and social contact limitations. Both highlight the contribution of behavioural changes, whether in energy consumption or social behaviour, to the project of combating a collective problem<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The aforementioned measures doubtless demanded a lot from people and in the specifics of the necessary extent of the restrictions, they proved controversial, as also in their unequal impact on different social groups. Nevertheless, the two crises show that political measures to carefully restrict the behaviour of citizens are possible<\/strong> if the threat is correspondingly great and the importance of the protected good \u2013 in these examples, health and energy \u2013 is recognised. The state has succeeded (even if not in every individual case) in devising measures such that it achieves its goal while maintaining proportionality. It is also clearly possible for these policies to be designed and communicated in such a way that the majority support them.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis mine. All of this speaks for itself, and I don\u2019t have much to add, except to observe that the only way for restrictions to be \u201ccommunicated\u201d such that \u201cthe majority support them,\u201d is by renewed forays into state media-fuelled mass panic and hysteria. Corona has taught our rulers that a great deal more is possible than they ever imagined, and they will spend the coming years exploring the limits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared<\/a> on Eugyppius\u2019s Substack newsletter. You can subscribe here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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