Pirate's Cove

Naomi Klein has been on a tear, what with her book coming out. I’ve discussed her a few times in the past few months, and she continues to highlight one of the real reasons lefties push “climate change”, the other being the fascistic push for central government control

(National Post) According to Canadian social activist and perennial agitator Naomi Klein, the really inconvenient truth about climate change is that it’s not about carbon — it’s about capitalism.

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate is focused on exposing how the relentless pursuit of growth has locked us in to a system that’s incompatible with a stable climate. The bottom line is, the reality of global warming has forced civilization into a hard choice: Either continue on as usual, committing the planet to growing inequality as the effects of climate change escalate and disproportionately affect the poor, or try a radically different path.

She’s just saying what Warmists are thinking: get rid of capitalism. Make sure to read the entire interview, because she says things most Warmists refuse to ever say in public. Meanwhile

(Chicago Tribune) For some of the people in New York this week demanding action on global warming, the menace is not just carbon dioxide. The real Tyrannosaurus rex is the American economic system. On Monday, the day after the huge march through Manhattan, a few hundred protesters showed up in the financial district for “Flood Wall Street.” Their slogan: “Stop Capitalism. End the Climate Crisis.”

One of them lamented to ThinkProgress that “not many people are willing to say that the root problem of climate change is capitalism.” Another told The Daily Beast she was there “because I’m a Mashpee Wampanoag native to this country, and as far as I’m concerned, Wall Street greed has been killing me and my ancestors for 400 years.” (Snip)

It’s true there are corporations that profit from goods and services that contribute to global warming, from Exxon Mobil to General Motors to Duke Energy. But blaming capitalists for excessive carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is like blaming grocery stores for obesity. In each case, the business is taking its cue from what consumers want.

Steve Chapman goes on to explain capitalism, as well as how socialism utterly failed when it came to environmental concerns. Of course, that matters little to Warmists,  because a. they just know it will work this time, and b. so what if it doesn’t? They’ll have total control. That’s what they want.