US intellectual, Michael Lind, has a provocatively titled article, “Why I am Against Saving the Planet (and Why You Should be, Too),” making the case that I fully agree with, that environmentalism is an anti-Christian, anti-human religious cult, hostile to modern civilisation, and wallowing in romantic primitivism, while the environmentalists enjoy the comforts of the social order that they despise. Thus, the stated goal of environmentalism, to “save the planet,” means to save the planet from humans, in particular, those that the Left despise.
Probing deeper, the idea of the “environment” employed by the environmentalists is that of a self-regulating system, where the mere loss of one species damages the whole. But, that is incoherent, as over evolutionary time, 99 percent of the species that have been on the Earth eventually go extinct. As well, global temperatures have fluctuated over time, from ice age cold, to hotter than now, with carbon dioxide levels being only one factor in the complex equation of global temperature. Thus, environmentalism is simplistic about even its key concept: temperature.