- The government lets the nightlife industry take the brunt and supports environmental evils

The nightlife industry has become the pandemic’s main economic victim, and the bankruptcy wave we have only just seen the beginning of, believes the submitter. The picture is from Munken bistro, which closed in December. Photo: Jannica Luoto (archive)

The government has compensated for environmental deviations and let the nightlife industry take the brunt.

Paul Johannessen
City Council Representative, MDG Bergen

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The Consequences of a two-year pandemic is increasingly clear winners and losers. Before the pandemic, there was no better illustration of economic progress than people going out to eat, drink, and enjoy nightlife events. This portrayal of financial success no longer applies. While some economic signs are pointing upwards, the nightlife industry has become the pandemic’s main economic victim.

We have just seen the start of the bankruptcy wave in the nightlife industry.

“The current Labor / Socialist government is unfortunately only the Conservatives and the Liberal Party”, writes Paul Johannessen in MDG. Photo: Private

Do you have had a stable income through the pandemic, so you have probably saved a lot of money. Payday loans, concerts, restaurant visits, travel and family activities have been discontinued, and the same money has been spent on something else. We spend more money on home and cottage , car sales in Norway when constantly new heights, and the online shopping goes so it laughs .

When the government has lined up for those who were laid off or lost income, some industries have been given higher priority than others. The oil industry and the aerospace industry received TAX TAX , even though the work of these industries is in direct conflict with our climate goals.

The global consequences of the climate crisis will have far more long-term challenges for the economy than the corona crisis has had and will have. Just look at the construction industry; the increase in timber prices is due to the bark beetle that attacks Canadian forests , and unusual frost in Brazil has changed coffee prices worldwide .

The climate crisis is the new normal. But the pandemic has been used as a kind of excuse to give climate change as the oil industry even more government support and continue a tax policy we should have scrapped for a long time.

At the climate summit in Glasgow was Norway revealed as the world’s emissions worst . If it is possible to let the entire nightlife industry take the brunt of the pandemic with minimal support along the way, then it should be possible to steer the economy away from emission-producing activities and towards more future-oriented industries. It will not be painless, but a crisis is never that.

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All further subsidization of the oil and gas industry should be redirected to turn the industry away from fossil energy and towards green energy. Norway can become a major exporter of the fossil-free fuels of the future, whether it is hydrogen, ammonia, biogas or synthetic diesel. We can build the green shipping of the future, offshore wind turbines or produce solar cell components and batteries.

2022 adds up to Record high cash flow in gas while cities are lifeless and bankrupt – both a result of reactionary decisions rather than good long-term planning.

No one knew that a pandemic would begin in 2019, that electricity prices would skyrocket towards the end of 2021, and no one knows exactly what will happen to the economy in 2030. What we actually know is that The climate crisis demands that we reduce fossil energy production as soon as possible.

Rather than protect about the jobs of bartenders, waiters and hairdressers, and bet on tens of thousands of jobs that will provide more green energy, the government has so far focused exclusively on compensation of dying industries and environmental degradation.

The current Labor / Socialist government is unfortunately only the Conservatives and the Liberal Party, without a vision for what Norway can become. Eyes and ears are still closed to the greatest challenge of our time.

The pandemic has its winners and losers, but if not we look up to the long-term challenges of the climate crisis , then we will all be losers.

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Published: January 8, 2022 22:55

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