I’m happy to say that Dr. K and I are on the same page, once again. My one question/objection to Krauthammer is really more like a question. He often credits Vaclav Klaus with describing environmentalism as the new socialism. But, as I’m sure Charles knows, this is an old observation, around since at least the Club of Rome stuff. Klaus makes a strong case, with much personal credibility, but it’s not original to him. Robert Nisbet made it decades ago. For a while I remember people crediting Norman Podhoretz with the insight. Meanwhile the Brits have been calling environmentalists “watermelons” for decades — green on the outside, red on the inside. Maybe Iain knows, but I’d be curious as to who first levelled the charge against environmentalism and what prompted it. My hunch is that in America at least it goes all the way back to the 19th century and the rise of the conservation movement. But that’s just a hunch.

Update: From a reader:

Don’t you mean, “All Your Carbon Are Belong To Us”?