I agree. But tying the recovery from this pandemic to an attempt to regulate CO2 emission would be an absolutely atrocious way to accomplish either pandemic response or CO2 emissions response.
I feel somewhat strange writing that as someone who buys into the systems philosophy of "fix whats broken immediately, enhance it later". While that's true in computer systems, it doesn't seem uncommon in the realm of politics that periods of disasters are taken as opportunities to experiment with different ideas.
That’s not how politics works. You can’t abuse a crisis to ram something unrelated down the opposing party’s throat. You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.
This never works with even something as simple as a government shutdown over budget considerations.
This is exactly how it works in practice in the US because the government is in terminal gridlock.
> You end up alienating everyone including the moderates.
The largest political party in the US is the non-voting party. Again, how it works in practice is that almost half of the population is already alienated.
Hell, it was written by the oppositions party current presidential front runner.