(JNS) This is an attempt to dig into the political-economic psyches of our friends on the left. I use Swedish activist Greta Thunberg as a case in point. She seems to be representative of all too many economic illiterates.
This young woman started out as a “watermelon,” green on the outside but red on the inside. All environmental problems are due to private property, profits and capitalism. Socialism is the only way (not the best way, the only way) to protect our precious earthly home.
This thinking comes despite the fact that Western countries have a far cleaner environment than those that practice economic dirigisme. It comes despite the fact that the so-called “greens” blamed the free enterprise system for global cooling in the 1970s. Then, when the planet heated up in the 1990s, the motif was that private enterprise was responsible for global warming, and the state was responsible for the solution.
However, earlier in the present century, change occurred once again. For the first time, global temperatures became a threat to our very existence...
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