Ross Douthat: Climate activists imagine a world in which all the burden falls on the rich.
Students from Latymer Upper School gathered in protest of climate change in central London on Friday, Sept. 20, 2019. Anxious about their future on a hotter planet, angry at world leaders for failing to arrest the crisis, thousands of young people began pouring into the streets on Friday for a day of global climate protest.
This tension has always lurked beneath the surface of left-wing climate activism, whose vision often imagines rich societies accepting a certain austerity, a retreat from the growth mentality of capitalism, a simpler, more ecologically wholesome way of life … whileimagining that somehow this austerity will fall only on the greedy rich and consumerist upper-middle class, while the poor and working class experience the post-capitalist, de-growth future as more affordable, not less.
But the incommensurate demands of the van Gogh vandals are a better guide to the new reality than the green-future optimism of officialdom. Yes, the world has made great progress on alternative energy, which is one reason climate change’s existential risks have dropped meaningfully in recent years, with worst-case scenarios becoming much less likely than before.
If unaffordable energy destabilizes Western politics, in other words, we should expect even more destabilization in blackout-beset nations such as Bangladesh and Pakistan, which are currently struggling to afford the rising price of liquefied natural gas.
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