How the Left Is Spreading Global Warming Alarmism on the Right – Capital Research Center

If theres one thing the Left knows cold, its deception. From Vladimir Lenin to Saul Alinsky, leftists are unparalleled masters of the art of victory through hoodwinking: Defeating opponents by fooling them into false agreement.

Owning the battlefield in this war starts with controlling the language. Weve seen this play out in the debate over abortion access, with pro-choice activistsredefiningpro-life to mean anythingbutthe conviction that life begins at conceptionand swindling unwitting Christians into their ranks.

Now its spreading to the debate over climate change, with environmental activists claiming theres nothing partisan about their one-sided campaign to fundamentally transform America. Radicals, socialists, and authoritarians know that global warming offers them the best chance to weaponize Big Government and dictate where Americans live and work, what they drive, eat, and buy, and even what beliefs theyre allowed to holdall through fear.

Truth-loving skeptics are all that stand in their way. So what better way to defeat them than by undermining the skeptics unity with false promises?

Meet the eco-Right, the collection of lobbying, litigation, and activist nonprofits that identify themselves as free market yet who have bought the Lefts argument that the Earth is getting dangerously hot and were to blame. Groups likeClearPath,Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions, and theClimate Leadership Councildisagree over specific policiessome want a devastating carbon tax to reduce emissions, others want federal subsidies for expensive lithium batteriesbut all want skeptical Republicans to compromise with uncompromising leftists on their global warming policies.

By doing so they threaten to undermine both affordable energy in America and the future of the conservative movementwhich is why theyre often funded by the likes ofGeorge Sorosas well as theFordandHewlett Foundations.

My colleagues and I at the Capital Research Center first broke the news on the secret liberal mega-donors bankrolling the eco-Right in order to rebrand radical environmentalism as conservative. Our new report,Rise of the Eco-Right, compiles years of research and investigative reporting to expose the funders, leadership, and lobbying of the eco-Right, exposing a web of overlapping boards and shared donors in service to a destructive and cynical agenda.

Weve studied the professional Left for decades and are all too familiar with activists use of deception and misdirection to camouflage their agenda to the casual glance. Unlike Activism Inc., we believe that Americans should be free from fearmongering to listen to arguments from both sides and come to their own conclusions in the global warming debate.Rise of the Eco-Rightaims to make it clear that climate-conscious conservatives cannot compromise with the Left because activists arent interested in anything less than a green socialist revolution.

Dont take my word for itthats the crux of anopen letterto Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) signed by 263 activist groups in November 2019, urging Congress to pass the Green New Dealarguably the most sweeping legislation ever proposed in Americato combat increasing income/wealth inequality and rising white nationalism and neo-fascism in America.

Todays environmentalists are more interested in environmental racism and restitution for Black and Indigenous farmers than the environment, and theyre no longer hiding it behind the fig leaf of saving the planet from greenhouse gases.

Recall theexplanationthat Green New Deal author Saikat Chakrabartis gave to theWashington Post: Do you guys think of [the Green New Deal] as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.

Heres the bottom line: carbon taxes, green tech subsidies, and greenhouse gas pledges will never be enough for Big Green because the debate isnt reallyaboutthose things, but power. Activists know this, which is why theyve abandoned these market-friendly proposals for the ultimate prize: the utopia of socialized medicine, federal jobs for everyone, slavery reparations, and more.

The eco-Right offers the Left a backdoor for the kind of statist policies that conservatives would never supportif they werent falsely labeled. Its a sirens song that promises free market answers to climate change but will only result in tyranny. Conservatives, you have nothing to gain and everything to lose by listening to the eco-Rightso dont give up the ship.

This article was first published in RealClearEnergy on September 14, 2021.

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