What to Do about the Left’s Empty Environmentalism

President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and other world leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and Recep Erdogan are gating in Scotland for a climate summit. You know, the usual thing. Once again, we are at a “moment of truth” and taking our “last best chance” to save the blah blah blah, you’ve heard it all before. The results are surely going to be unenforceable, meaningless, or poorly understood goals. Maybe China will pretend to comply with them. Maybe it won’t bother. World leaders will be scowled at by neurodivergent childre n. World leaders will pretend to like and appreciate the scowling.

All this talk of reducing energy consumption is happening at a time when European leaders have been warning their publics that, well, you better have blankets and some candles, because this winter might see the arrival of green-led shutdowns sometime around Advent.

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and other world leaders such as Emmanuel Macron and Recep Erdogan are gating in Scotland for a climate summit. You know, the usual thing. Once again, we are at a “moment of truth” and taking our “last best chance” to save the blah blah blah, you’ve heard it all before. The results are surely going to be unenforceable, meaningless, or poorly understood goals. Maybe China will pretend to comply with them. Maybe it won’t bother. World leaders will be scowled at by neurodivergent childre n. World leaders will pretend to like and appreciate the scowling.

All this talk of reducing energy consumption is happening at a time when European leaders have been warning their publics that, well, you better have blankets and some candles, because this winter might see the arrival of green-led shutdowns sometime around Advent.