They're coming after your showers, toilets that actually flush, gas stoves, good washers and dryers, dishwashers and incandescent bulbs. She doesn't get into cars that don't get you where you want to get and cities that would allow you to drive only 15 minutes.
All this has nothing to do with keeping the earth pretty. Lawyer and author Wesley J. Smith writes:
Environmentalism is growing increasingly anti-capitalist and anti-human. Rather than aimed primarily at preventing or cleaning up pollution, these days, the louder voices within the movement seem less intent on preserving ecosystems and protecting wild places than they are with invoking global warming hysteria as the pretext to throttle capitalism, along with the liberty and prosperity it enables.
Smith quotes British journalist Paul Mason, who says:Few people are yet prepared to accept that, to save the planet, we have to end capitalism – and on a timescale that even an ardent Leninist might find optimistic . . .
It's a Marxist attempt to dismantle the engine of prosperity that feeds and heals the world. Let's go to the website of the Communist Party USA, where we find:
However, in saying that climate change is driven by human activity, we must be clear: capitalism itself is the primary culprit.
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