Climate Jacobin

Vincent J. Curtis

20 Aug 22

RE: Go after the climate culprits.  Letter to the editor.  The Hamilton Spectator 20 Aug 22.  Don McLean is a well-known environmental and climate activist.

Don McLean want us to go after fossil fuel corporations and banks; they should be made to pay full compensation for damage to the climate.  Then we should put criminal charges against the members of the Boards of Directors who “put profit over people’s lives!”

Why does this sound so Marxist?  If you “go-after” the oil companies, where are you going to get the fuel to run the economy?  If you “go-after” the banks, will you even have an economy?  And where are they going to get the money to pay “full compensation”?  And who will get the money? Who decides what “full compensation” amounts to?  What charges would you lay, and are they known to the criminal law?

If we’re going after Boards of Directors of banks and oil companies, why stop there?  Why not go after those who use their services also?  Like Mr. Robespierre himself, perhaps?  I’ll be he had a bank card.  I’ll bet he’s driven a car once or twice in his life – to get to work perhaps?

If McLean were the expert he professes to be, he’d know that any sacrifices Canada makes will be eclipsed next year by new emissions from China and India.  But that’s not the point.

Modern environmentalism isn’t about going Green; it’s about going without.  It’s Marxism without a Utopia at the end; it’s straightforward nihilism.

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