{"id":112893,"date":"2025-10-27T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112893"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:00:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:00:40","slug":"112893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=112893","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprised By Leftwing Radical Rhetoric? Look Closer at the Climate Movement<\/a><\/p>\n

Millions of Americans were horrified when Charlie Kirk was murdered in cold blood. Then came an even bigger shock: large numbers of people celebrated his death and danced on his grave.<\/p>\n

Sickening as it is, this shouldn\u2019t surprise anyone. The left has long harbored\u2014or at least tolerated\u2014an anti-human streak, and nowhere is it more visible than in its radical environmental wing.<\/p>\n

Leftwing misanthropy rears its ugly head when it comes to issues like abortion, euthanasia, and criticizing the traditional family. But radical environmentalism carries the same core belief: human beings are the problem. If we just had fewer human beings doing less, the idea goes, the world would be a better place.<\/p>\n

Radical environmentalists preach the gospel of demographic decline,\u00a0arguing<\/a>\u00a0that having fewer children cuts carbon more than a lifetime of bike riding and composting. Some environmentalists made the\u00a0not-so-subtle point<\/a>\u00a0that thanks to the death and lockdowns of COVID-19, \u201cnature is healing.\u201d One\u00a0recent study<\/a>\u00a0found that environmental activists, consumed by their mission, often tend to \u201cmanipulate and deceive others\u201d and demonstrate \u201ccallousness\u201d and \u201clack of empathy.\u201d When saving the planet is the goal, who has time for people\u2019s feelings?<\/p>\n

The logic is clear: humans are the problem. Not the behavior of industry or the pace of innovation\u2014but people themselves.<\/p>\n

Of course, that doesn\u2019t mean environmental activists have their fingers on a trigger. Thinking the world would be better off with fewer people doesn\u2019t make one a killer. But a movement that treats human beings as the enemy breeds a mindset where life itself can be dismissed, devalued, or even cheered when lost.<\/p>\n

How do you get so many people celebrating the death of Charlie Kirk? You get it in a movement that finds an environmental bright side to a deadly pandemic, that sees people as problems to be overcome, and that\u00a0holds up abortion<\/a>\u00a0as a win for the earth. To too many, life becomes unwelcome when, in their opinion, that life starts causing more harm than good.<\/p>\n

The result of this line of thinking brought to its logical conclusion is the despicable display recently put on by prominent University of Pennsylvania professor Michael Mann.<\/p>\n

Despite being one of the most prominent climate \u201cexperts\u201d with a perch in the lofty heights of the Ivy League, Mann\u00a0callously wrote<\/a>\u00a0after Kirk\u2019s assassination that \u201cthe white on white violence has gotten out of hand\u201d and retweeted a post calling Kirk \u201cthe head of Trump\u2019s Hitler Youth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mann has\u00a0long blurred the line between science and politics. In fact, his fierce partisanship has actually been a significant obstacle to common-sense bipartisan action.<\/a>\u00a0Yet few conservatives noticed his tirades because most ignore the climate issue entirely. It took Mann mocking the murder of a free speech activist for the general public to finally wake up to his radicalism.<\/p>\n

Yet Mann isn\u2019t just morally reckless; he\u2019s factually wrong. A\u00a0review<\/a>\u00a0of 1,500 climate policies found that his preferred approach of top-down government regulation fails, while free market solutions actually reduce carbon emissions. President Trump\u2019s pro-energy policies and embrace of cleaner natural gas helped\u00a0cut carbon emissions<\/a>\u00a0to the lowest level in 25 years in his first term. President Trump is also laser-focused on holding China accountable for its economic practices. China is the world\u2019s foremost polluter, yet this appears to be an \u201cinconvenient truth\u201d for environmentalists on the Left.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the activists on the environmental left seem immune to the facts. Or, maybe, they just haven\u2019t heard them.<\/p>\n

Radical environmentalists like Michael Mann are organizing, teaching, and shaping the next generation in ways that are anti-human, anti-freedom, and anti-Western. Thus far, they\u2019ve done so unopposed. But conservatives can\u2019t continue to cede this battlefield.<\/p>\n

If we want to effectively combat leftwing misanthropy, we must engage in the climate debate\u2014and we must offer a hopeful counterpoint to the left\u2019s dark narratives, wherever they take hold.<\/p>\n

No matter what many of the left seem to believe, people aren\u2019t the problem. In fact, if Charlie Kirk\u2019s life proved anything, it\u2019s that even one person can change the world for the better.<\/p>\n

Chris Johnson is President and Co-Founder of the American Energy Leadership Institute, a conservative energy policy research and advocacy organization working to ensure America leads and dominates the 21st century.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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