The Agenda Behind Climate Change Catastrophism

The Agenda Behind Climate Change Catastrophism
Protesters gather during a School Strike 4 Climate protest outside Australia's then-Treasurer Josh Frydenberg's office in Melbourne, Australia, on May 13, 2022. AAP Image/James Ross
Michael Rectenwald
Mises Institute
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Democrats on Capitol Hill are pressuring the Biden administration to declare a climate emergency, voicing their doomsday predictions that without immediate action to curb and ultimately end our dependence on fossil fuels, “the planet” and, by implication, every living creature that inhabits it, will die.

Michael Rectenwald, Ph.D., is a former professor at New York University and a distinguished fellow at Hillsdale College. He is the author of twelve books, including “The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty” (2022), “Thought Criminal” (2020), “Beyond Woke” (2020), “Google Archipelago” (2019), “Springtime for Snowflakes” (2018), and “Nineteenth-Century British Secularism” (2016).
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