It is a virtual religion. Melds globalism, socialism, and environmentalism. When the Soviet Union fell, Gorbachev ran right out and founded a global environmental organization. Smart guy—saw the handwriting on the wall.
Communism is a hard sell. Environmentalism is an easy sell. Global warming is a vehicle, that’s all. It is a fraud. And even assuming simply for the sake of argument that human activity actually influences long term temperature change, does anyone in their right mind trust government to competently influence the climate via economic policies?
They are winning big time. Soon, following the legal model used against cigarette companies litigation) it will be a criminal offense to speak out against the current “climate model”.
It is about wealth distribution, from us to them. They will not be happy until the US is on its knees, its remaining populace living in caves.
That’s right; it is the preferred religion of many post-Christian Americans, since it allows them to live immoral lives (in Judeo-Christian terms) and still pretend they are “good”. Servicing strangers in a rest stop is OK because they recycle their spring water bottles.
In the long run nature will kill off the losers. So the parting gift prize is knowing that these winners will get their just due eventualy. Atlas will shrug them off soon.