“Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.” – Robert Heinlein

But it is, and the fundamental reason for that is not, as the Left claim, that the Right is filled with “science deniers”, but because dealing with Climate Change offers the ultimate lefty wet dream of the State controlling our lives in at least as intimate detail as the old Soviets.

We’ve seen it with the Greens for two decades: there’s a reason that old Soviets like Keith Locke and Maoists like Sue Bradford joined and although they’re long gone the new breed like Marama Davidson and Elizabeth Kerekere are just cloaked in the 21st century Far Left bullshit of Identity Politics and the like that contain the same old oppressed/oppressor and State Control dynamic. And here’s another classic example of it from Norway:

Her name is Agnes Walton, and in her environmental fanaticism she makes Greta Thunberg look half-hearted and Al Gore look irresolute. Let’s start with her 2017 video for HBO’s VICE News Tonight, in which she noted that “more than half of all consumer goods” contain palm oil
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Or check out Walton’s video editorial from August of last year. In this one, produced for the New York Times, Walton warned of another existential dilemma: American lawns, which, she solemnly asserted, “are damaging our planet, ruining our health, and wasting our time.” … Walton charged that American’s “obsession” with lawns “has its roots in the manicured lawns of the European aristocracy” 

She must loathe golf – and she’s not even a Zoomer. But here’s her family background:

Born and raised in Norway, she’s (surprise!) a daughter of privilege – specifically, the daughter of Stephen J. Walton, a professor of languages who splits his time between Norway and the U.K. and who, in a 2012 profile for the scholarly journal Kjønnsforskning (Gender Research), explained that he and his wife live apart so that he can have sex with men. He contributes a column on feminism to Klassekampen, Norway’s self-described “revolutionary socialist” newspaper, and has written a book deploring the “Americanization” of Norway…. Oh, one more thing: his son, Agnes’s brother, is an ardent Communist.

What are the odds that she’s into Friedmanite economics rather than Karl Marx?

…having studied French at the University of Oslo, political science in Sweden, and environmental science at Yale, has had a busy transatlantic career, working (just like Dad) as a Klassekampen columnist and as communications manager for a Swedish commission on “food, planet, [and] health” before becoming, as we’ve seen, a “climate researcher” for VICE News in New York and, then, a “senior video journalist” at the Times.

Exactly the sort of person who’d tell a mere pleb with a Science degree that they don’t understand the science.

Part of that is the standard Lefty belief that the private sector couldn’t solve this problem even if it wanted to. The claim often made in the last twenty years was that capitalism created this problem so how could they solve it? Of course outside of the fringe of Communist True Believers even the Left understand that capitalist institutions are the only ones that can fix this problem – but the theory is that the State can “guide” them in the desired direction via regulation. That such regulation would have to be of Gosplan detail either escapes them or they don’t care.

Even the marginally capitalist ideas of Carbon taxes and ETS-type schemes where Carbon Credits are traded is an artificial crock since the objects of the markets are artificial creations of the State and deliberately subject to their price being lifted by regulation. Think minimum wage or rent control but more stupid.

As an example of where this artificiality will eventually lead see the latest screwup in Britain where the Tory government’s offer of permits for offshore wind farms saw not a single bid made by the private sector companies, who then informed the Tories that their regulator would have to allow power price increases of at least 70% if the bids were to be profitable.

That’s not a marketplace, let alone a free one.

But if you’re incredibly wealthy you can stay ahead of the insanity – for a while. Like California, who at present have a small project going (costing mere billions of dollars) to remove four hydroelectric dams built a century ago:

The first of four hydroelectric dams along the Oregon-California border has been removed from the main stem of the Klamath River. All that remains of the dam known as Copco 2 in Siskiyou County, California, is the headworks of a diversion tunnel adjacent to the now free-flowing river.
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When complete, the overall project will be the biggest dam removal in U.S. history and will reopen 400 miles of fish habitat that was cut off for more than a century.

That’s nice. And that steady flow of hydro electricity will be replaced by what? Wind? Solar? Unicorn farts? BTW, the second biggest dam removal did not bring back the Coho salmon.

If the mentality exists that can destroy something as embedded, both physically and systemically in our society as a hydro dam, you can see how easily they’ll kick farming to the curb:

Those are Indian farmers protesting but those signs are right on the button as a clear sign that this Climate-Change-mitigation-anti-farmer crap is global despite all the international treaties saying that such measures should not negatively affect food production:

Since provisions of the Green New Deal were included in the “Inflation Reduction Act,” the Biden administration has gone full bore into regulatory rule-making. Rule-making is surreptitiously powerful and generally goes ignored by any media, since few journalists have done time in the real world of actual production of actual goods that people need to eat.

But that rule-making is now methodically shuttering independent farmer after rancher after farmer. Ranches that have fed people for a century or more are having their herds reduced from six hundred head of cattle to one hundred, without any ability to discuss or work with the Bureau of Land Management official who is ruining them. A proposed new rule gives Bureau of Land Management employees even more power, without any legislative oversight.

The GOP morons who voted for this still have not got the message of how broad legal Acts get turned by their Lefty enemies into business-killing “regulations” wielded by asshole bureaucrats.

The Epoch Times has just released a film called, No Farmers, No Food. An hour-long documentary that shows just how far along the Net Zero 2030 food rules have progressed. The program shows the stories of the Dutch farmers, the Sri Lankan disaster where the withdrawal of fertilizer meant starvation, and the literal crimes taking place out in the heartlands and rangelands of America.

These people, these Leftists, for all their crying about how much they care about humans and human society, are lying in the same way that they lied about caring about South Africa or now about Palestine or … well, pick any issue they’ve pushed over the last few decades. Agnes Walton is John Minto is Marama Davidson is Elizabeth Kerekere is…

They hate our society and wish to destroy it. That’s the real reason they’re hot on Climate Change. Science has nothing to do with it.