The blog post is an exercise in pointing out that it's truly remarkable that within a few months of the global environmental protest movement, global governments have actually delivered, forcefully, quickly and with global agreements, many of the outcomes that the environmental movement would have wanted/needed.

That's just a really weird idea because the reason for the governments doing all those things is completely unrelated to the environmental protest. AND there was no hope in hell of the world doing all those things "for the environment".

The blog post deliberately tries to illustrate that point by presenting the story as though there were no virus, only environmental protest plus government action.

And instead of governments being slow and begrudging and endlessly politicking, it has all happened within a matter of weeks.

Illustrating the story in this way also goes some way to dispel many of the reasons that governments give for government inaction, usually they protest that it's not possible for humanity to respond in such radical ways - but clearly we can, given sufficient urgency/motivation/imperative.

With the irony being that both the environment and the virus represent a threat to humanity, but the virus operates in a much faster timeline than the environment.

If the environment was collapsing as fast as the virus is playing out then the world would act in the needed radical manner. Conversely, if the virus played out as slowly as the environmental disaster then it would not get much of a response from anyone.