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The Latest Things Climate-Change Fanatics Insist You Make Do with Less Of

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Environmental activism seems increasingly inclined toward one panacea in the effort to arrest the effects of climate change: deprivation.

The environmentalist fanatic’s answer to every environmental challenge appears to be ensuring that more people have access to less: less red meat, less on-demand energy, fewer reliable appliances, and so on. As the movement retreats inward in an effort to reduce its exposure to skeptics outside its cloistered ideological bubble, its demands have become ever more bizarre. Thus we are forced to add a few more items to the list of things to which climate change radicals want you to have less access.

Noah Rothman

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Noah Rothman

Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review. His third book, Blood and Progress: A Century of Left-Wing Violence, was published by Hachette in May 2026.

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