If the corporate elites, like Bill Gates, who are now born-again environmentalists, were really serious, they could do much to reduce the dreaded carbon emissions. Bill Gates could easily prevent the clearing of rainforests with financing of alternative industries for people in the Amazon and Borneo. The use of careful burning could reduce forest fires in California and Australia, but the environmentalists will not allow it, so each year there is devastating bushfire damage, doing more damage. And if environmentalists were really serious about reducing emissions, the they would be open about the enormous emissions needed to set up and maintain the renewable energy infrastructure, and would examine nuclear. But, none of these things are done.
The conjectured reason for this paradox, is that for the corporates, climate change represents a new area to make a dollar, even though some industries, such as the fossil fuel industries, will suffer. The corporates are not a totally unified force. But for the woke, the beat goes on. Thus, for the Left, environmentalism channels the powerful emotions that lead young people to embrace socialism, giving the young the equivalent of a religion. There are all the ingredients, with sin, being producing carbon dioxide, the devil, being the West and white people, and redemption, being Green socialism. It is all as dangerous as it can get, but conservatives are not fully aware of how deep this all goes.