“Covid is a crisis, climate is a crisis. We can learn some very important messages around communication” – Watts Up With That?

According to the UK House of Commons, a third of the plan to cut Net Zero emissions must come from changes to behaviour.

Using Covid lessons to limit climate change, Lords tells government

By Georgina Rannard

BBC News Climate and Science

Information campaigns like those used during the Covid-19 pandemic will help individuals take action on climate change, a House of Lords report says.

To meet climate targets, a third of emissions cut in the UK by 2035 must come from people changing their behaviour.

It called the government’s current approach “seriously lacking”.

In response, the government said it was fully committed to the climate goals that were not legally binding.

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“People will have different lifestyles and make different choices about the changes they need to make, but we are pretty clear that people need help to make this happen,” said the Baron. Kate Parminter, chair of the House of Commons Environment and Climate Change Committee, which wrote the report, told BBC News.

The Covid-19 pandemic has provided important lessons on how to communicate clearly, using science, with the public, she said.

“Covid is a crisis, climate is a crisis. We were able to learn some very important messages around the communications and the scale of the problem,” she added.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-enosystem-63209451

Baroness Parminter, the politician cited by the BBC, is a Liberal Democrat. In my experience, at least in the South East of England, the Liberal Democrats present themselves as a green, left-wing party, a middle-class alternative to the socialist parties of the working class. self-recognize.

Since most people except China today treat Covid like the flu, I really doubt that the lesson people are learning from the Covid panic is not the one that Baron Kate Parminter wanted. everyone learns.

What is that saying again? “Fooled me once…”