I know exactly where you are going with that post. Your post actually acknowledges my worries that Climate Change or GREEN, as I prefer that term, is a Trojan Horse. Many people like me are worried that some people are using this issue to achieve unachievable political goals that they would never be allowed to accomplish through the democratic process.
I remember a few years ago, when President Obama was elected and wanted to go hard on the issue of Climate Change - many commentators, pundits and some scientists sounded the alarm while pointing out that climate activists where like watermelons - GREEN on the outside and Red (Communist) on the inside.
It was this type of thinking that got me interested in trying to understand what GREEN is. I have done some research, and I am fairly certain this Trojan Horse is not Marxist in nature. But make no mistake, I view many in the GREEN movement to have extremist characteristics, policies and intentions. Even though it does seem authoritarian in nature like Communism, with their demands for radical structural and systemic changes to how our economy works, it does not match up with any relevant writings about Marx about command and control.
In fact, Communism was sold as an ideology about workers and sustainable prosperity for all. Now, as history has shown, it never lived up to its own propaganda. But GREEN seems no different. Green is always portrayed as people friendly, and that it has only the best of intentions and says equality for all will be its guiding light when it comes to who will benefit by their decisions to save the planet. How often have we in this country heard of the need to create good GREEN jobs?
Yet, just this week with the canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline thousands of people will be laid off. That means whole families will suffer even more in this pandemic. Some children will even go hungry in the middle of winter. Now, I am not a fan of the Tar Sands in Alberta, but if GREEN means some children in this country must suffer for the greater good, I must say the GREEN Climate Movement is a force for something other than doing good.
Going further, I am willing to say that from my limited research on this topic, GREEN encompasses far more than just a carbon tax that will limit the temperature of the planet to a certain degree. Constantly the legacy media and the current government in Ottawa talk of a plastics ban or initiatives to limit the types of energy we can use to heat our homes. All sold under the banner of GREEN.
Now, I certainly think something should be done to address the issue of global-warming, but that does not mean I see the need or necessity to reinvent our Canadian society from the ground up as the GREEN Climate Movement (GCM) wants.
Which brings me to this topic in this forum as it is entitled -the moral and ethical challenge that man-made Climate Change present to the people of Canada today.
In essence, the question I am trying to answer is this…
Is GREEN morally and ethically good?
With a clear conscience and with what I know at this time, I would have to say NO.