Is global warming a great big Leftie conspiracy? I only ask because
pretty much the same people normally found on anti-austerity, stop-the-war,
scrap nukes or save-the-badger protests were out on the streets again at the
weekend with their Carbon is Death banners to mark
the opening of the Paris summit on climate change. As Charles Moore observed, activists who 30 years ago marched alongside Arthur Scargill demanding
a reprieve for the pits now want to close down every coalmine in the world. Jobs
mattered in West Yorkshire in 1984, but not in West Virginia in 2015, it
seems.
"What we would all like is to ensure that future generations are not
bequeathed a planet that is difficult to inhabit – but without causing great
disruption to our own lives"
Campaigners would doubtless argue that we didn’t know then what we know
now – that the world is heating up and the burning of fossil fuels is
responsible. But while that is something that affects us all, climate change
activism has been hijacked by anti-capitalist organisations, which makes many of
us suspicious about their motives.
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