Eco-extortionists on the run

From the Institute for Canadian Values, Joseph C. Ben-Ami writes:

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher used to say that she was happy when her opposition resorted to attacking her or her colleagues’ character. It meant, she said, that they (her opponents) could not win the battle of ideas.

If that is true, then the eco-extortionists are definitely on the run.

For almost four decades, the left has been using the environment as a weapon in their ongoing war against free markets and free societies. “The world is on the verge of an environmental catastrophe,” they claim, a calamitous event that can only be averted if – you guessed it – we give them complete political control.

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