“Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass.”Only the first world middleclass--what is left of them--have had this "imaginary problem" foisted on them by the political classes and their clients. They didn't imagine for themselves or for their own interests a confiscatory tax regime based on an ordinary gas that occurs naturally in our atmosphere.
The political class is doing what they always do - surfing the wave. I maintain that if Bill Clinton had been governor of Arkansas in 1957 instead of Orville Faubus, he would have been the one standing in the schoolhouse door. Instead, he was tearfully experiencing non-existent church burnings. The hallmark of a successful politician is an agile moral compass, not too firmly guided by any durable principle other than election and re-election.