And the rubes will love it! Green new deal here we come. Article is essentially saying that "Central planning is working this time, we swear!!!" If by working you mean destroying freedom and the international division of labor, sure.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism. It is a plausible formulation, even in its comical effect. And yet, the current crisis proved the opposite. Capitalism was remarkably easy to stop—or at least to interrupt. All that was needed was a genuine environmental crisis, a crisis where the external conditions for a capitalist economy were suddenly removed.

All it took was a police state, as has been true many times before.