Climate lockdown
Complementary & alternative
Climate lockdown is a conspiracy theory claiming that governments or global elites plan to use climate change as a pretext to impose broad lockdown-style restrictions on movement, consumption, and daily life, analogous to measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fact-checking organizations, academic researchers, and policy experts have repeatedly found no evidence for such plans and have described “climate lockdowns” as a mischaracterization of climate policy debates and urban planning proposals.