The primary driving obsession of environmentalism, global warming, and such is the insanity to establish total control over the peoples of the world.
IMO with schemes like "pollution credits" there's also the individual insane obsession of being the world's first trillionaire.
I've said for years that it would be Algore, if the Carbon Credit scam would've gone through.
His cut of the civilization destroying Cap n’ Trade-esque laws and regulations ($700 trillion) would've been in the trillions if they all would've gone through.
But hey, why not make the elites super-rich while we all starve in the dark just in case it works and really does lower the temperature of the Earth by 0.0000045 degrees F over the next 100 years?