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Why the ‘great reset’ failed to change the world
Anyone remember the “great reset” theory during the pandemic, which among other things was supposed to put the world on a permanent path to addressing climate change by dramatically lowering industrial greenhouse gas emissions?
Simply put, it never happened.
The great reset plan endlessly spouted by “progressive” politicians, the United Nations and think-tanks like the World Economic Forum was all the rage in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic four years ago, including by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who told a UN conference in September 2020 that: “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset. This is our chance to accelerate our pre-pandemic efforts to re-imagine economic systems that actually address global challenges like … climate change.”
A year later, then-federal environment minister Jonathan Wilkinson told The Globe and Mail that because of the pandemic that was officially declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020, 2019 would be the last year that Canada’s annual greenhouse gas emissions would increase and that for the next decade they would steadily decline.
“We will see year-on-year reductions — absolute reductions — starting in 2020 through to 2030,” Wilkinson said. “We have high confidence that’s actually going to be the case.”
But that was then and this is now.
