I almost skipped this opinion piece.
Good thing I read it.
I think it’s spot on, like 100% accurate.
Environmentalism had a lot of merit until it became political and commercial in nature in the 1970s.
Environmentalism today is forcing people to buy a certain car, new AC systems as they switch out refrigerants faster than old underwear, it’s about raising taxes, billions in subsidies, and it is of course all about who the winners and losers are economically and politically in all of this.
It serves other agenda’s:
—It gives young gullible people a purpose and cause in what is an otherwise vapid secular existence.
—It allows government to raise billions in new taxes fighting these make belief apocalyptic threats.
—It makes a lot of people very rich selling things which often are WORSE for the environment than what they are replacing in the name of environmentalism.
—It allows politicians to grandstand, showing action in the face of this threat.
—It today has the MSM and political left wrapped around these causes as a way to drive their socioeconomic agenda.
MOST of it turns out to be complete bullshit:
—Whatever happened to the ozone hole?
—What about those baby-seals?
—Polar bears?
—The spotted owl?
—The Brazilian rain forest was going to be gone by the year 2000.
—What about acid rain?
—Peak oil?
—Running out of potable water?
—Drowning in trash because we can’t get rid of it all?
Environmentalism has become a big business and you have an entire industry of experts, subsidies, government programs, tied up in keeping much of this nonsense alive: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Greta-Thunberg
THAT FRiend, is a darn good post!