The writer is both.
People have been propagandized about CARBON CARBON CARBON for decades at this point. It has literally been decades now where scientists couldn’t get a government grant unless they parroted the party line that you must give government more taxation and control over energy because CARBON CLIMATE CHANGE!
Eisenhower warned us of government and big science working together against us in his farewell speech, the same one in which he also warned of the military industrial complex (endless wars in the Middle East, anyone?). He was a very prescient man.
"I was helping to save the planet and saving myself the cost of buying nasty, polluting oil."
Dumb as a post and less useful.