But it takes really big wealth to use the environment as a weapon to prevent others from threatening their position atop the wealth pyramid.
The environmental movement is all about establishing a new monarchy where the kings and princes will once again have their own hunting preserves and God help any commoner caught poaching.
““Wealth is necessary to give a damn about the environment.”
Ug. What we have here is a failure to communicate. One, that wasn’t my quote. That was the quote of the guy I was responding to. I said “Wealth is necessary to DO a damn thing about the environment”. My point was that allowing the global free market to thrive, unhindered by multi-national treaties, by goverment efforts to “reign in” production and consumption, is the best way to go. The globe will warm or cool as it has always done. Humans will adapt to it as they’ve always done. Making people not be the productive isn’t the answer. Innovation in a free market is.