"Shut Down DC" climate protests are a Trojan horse for socialism

The so-called climate activists who are trying to shut down Washington DC and gather across the country this week do not care much about climate change.

Yes, they have doubled "Rebels of the climate" and claim to target "companies, lobbyists, trade cartels and government institutions that are most responsible for creating the climate crisis". Indeed, they say they are motivated by the climatic apocalypse in terms of their extinction.

This is a lie.

Of course, many activists are concerned about global warming caused by humans, but their activism is betrayal. This is not about the environment, but rather seeks to advance a far-left economic agenda in the name of the green revolution. It is clearer than ever that the environmental movement has been co-opted by socialists who, in fact, view the fight against climate change as a secondary concern in their radical economic reforms.

They do not really hide the ball.

The leader of the climate sect, teenage activist Greta Thunberg, basically admitted it when she spoke to the United Nations on Monday. "We are at the beginning of a massive extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales about eternal economic growth," she said. m said.

This is typical of Thunberg: much of his apocalyptic rhetoric goes beyond mere fear and alarmism about the potential consequences of climate change for specifically addressing capitalism, profits and markets as the root cause of the problem.

Add this to those who make it more explicit, like the climate activist who specifically wrote a op-ed in the guardian entitled: "The fight against climate change requires the end of capitalism". Then consider those who took to the streets on Monday, many of whom expressed explicitly anti-capitalist messages, not just feelings favorable to the environment.

Their current program also reveals that this movement is more about socialism than environmentalism. the "Stop DC" The group that runs the Washington-based protests openly claims its partnership with the leftist labor groups and even with the American socialist democrats. Their requests include the implementation of the Green New Deal, a Trojan horse for socialism if there was one.

Ask yourself the following question: Should a truly environmental-minded movement promote a platform with a socialist health policy, universal jobs in government and all sorts of other nonsense? leftist that have nothing to do with environmentalism? If activists really cared about climate change, they would not call for implementation of an agreement not including the promotion of nuclear energy – the most available source of energy available. efficient and the least expensive.

But even on the surface, the so-called environmental activism presented this week is obviously hypocritical. Think about it: if the activists really care about the environment, would they clutter the traffic for hours? This is not really the best way to reduce carbon emissions.

Environmental activism does not seem entirely authentic when it is associated with errors and waste.

If activists really wanted to stop climate change, they would adopt market-based solutions. For example, the deregulation of artificial meat would do a lot to accelerate carbon emission reductions; the beef industry is currently a major factor in climate change. Ending socialist subsidies to the fossil fuel industry would be a step towards the market while accelerating our transition to less harmful environmental sources.

More generally, as Ronald Bailey has documented reason, capitalism and the economic growth it generates lead to reduced pollution and increased environmental awareness as societies enrich themselves. In fact, the government-led economy in China is currently the largest engine of carbon emissions in the world.

Capitalism is clearly not the cause of global warming. If anything, it's a crucial part of the solution. The fact that climate activists refuse to admit that this shows how much their activism is fallacious from the beginning.