This from Frank Lasee:

This is the end game. Wake up people. Their agenda is anti human. Anti growth. Anti enjoyment unless you are an elite. Regular people have lives as good as or better than the wealthy 100 or 200 years ago. Because of cheap reliable affordable energy.
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Amongst the most troubling of these interventions were demands from academics and campaigners that the price of domestic gas, meat, and cheese must be increased to change our behaviors.”

Democracy Wakes Up on the Road to Net Zero

Tim adds:

Most environmentalists are Malthusians. They believe the primary problem, nay, emergency in human civilization is overpopulation. They fed on Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb in the '70s, as well as the Club of Rome study "Limits to Growth". They want fewer people.

How do you achieve that? You make life so bitter and hard people stop having children. The population shrinks as the resources dwindle. It's why control of energy - which is the backbone of industrial civilization - is key. They want a lot less of it. So they promote things they know won't give us enough, like wind and solar. They want everyone to be forced to live like they did 150 years ago, and in the process they hope the world's population drops to levels of  150 years ago. (Of course, if history teaches us anything, it's that population growth drops off as a nation becomes wealthier, but that seems counter-intuitive and is against the long term program they've been working.)

In the end they hope to have a world with less than a billion people, a pastoral paradise where everything is shared and nobody has to work hard. But you can't do that in this fallen world. It's utopianism of the most egregious sort. There is no way to build a paradise in a world governed by entropy and decay.

But it won't stop them from trying, and in the process hurting billions of people.

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