The most vociferous crusaders in the ostensible campaign against climate change often sound less concerned with tackling greenhouse gas emissions and more with undermining pro-growth capitalism. Introducing her magnum opus, The Climate Book, anti-global warming avatar Greta Thunberg blamed the phenomenon on “racist, oppressive extractivism that is exploiting both people and the planet to maximize short-term profits for a few,” calling for a total upheaval of the “the whole capitalist system.”
The grand irony of the 21-year-old Swedish activist’s thrust is not just that she and so many of her ilk have hijacked the real problem of human-caused climate change as a Trojan horse for their left-wing economic agenda. Rather, it is capitalism, not collectivism, granting humanity our greatest hope of overcoming climate change. And
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