The Environmental Police Are Coming

Earth is a mess. Because of…YOU.

You need to stop driving so much. That’s right. All that carbon you’re producing is heating up our planet. Ditto for flying. But please look the other way when our Climate Overlord—I mean Czar—John Kerry flies private.

He’s important, don’t you know?

We can’t expect our experts and elites to make the same choices and sacrifices as us. They’re in Davos right now selflessly building us back better.

And when they’re done, they’ll get on with Great Resetting the world.

Of course, corrupt power and hypocrisy have always palled around. “Do as I say, not as I do,” didn’t just emerge in COVID when folks like Mayor Eric Garcetti were caught maskless. (To be fair, he held his breath the whole time.)

Garcetti’s sacrificing for you.

Just like when Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot got her hair done while you were locked in your home. “I’m the public face of this city,” she told us, remember? “I’m on national media and I’m out in the public eye.”

Got it. Thank you for your service, Lori Lightfoot!

 

Now, if only there was some way to codify such selflessness—some way to measure how well us plebians can learn to behave better towards the Earth. Enter the E in ESG, that shadow set of ideologies exploited by globalists in nation after nation to dictate what we soon can and cannot do.

Power is addictive, and Environmentalism is their new gateway drug.

Zooming out, cultural manipulation via exaggerated environmental crises goes back at least 50 years. If you lived through the 1970s or the 1980s, you probably awaited the next Ice Age with bated breath.

But then, in the 1990s and 2000s, all those fears melted away with lava-hot concern over greenhouse gases and global warming.

Meanwhile, (petroleum-based) plastics have been good, bad, reduced, reused, recycled, and back again. These days, you’re an arch super villain if you use plastic bags to grocery shop. (Shame on you for not bringing your Trader Joe’s bag in with you. I mean, do even care about Mother Gaia?)

You’re also evil now for drinking from plastic straws (since paper is more eco-friendly—except when it comes to forests. Ignore that. And stop asking so many questions. You sound like Rand Paul quizzing Dr. Fauci on Gain of Function.)

But I think you know the game here.

This is not about helping the environment—just like mask mandates were never about health. Environmentalism—mandated via ESG—is to condition us into giving away our liberty for the “greater good.”

AKA Communism.

My coauthor David Prescott and I know a thing or two about ESG. We just wrote Creative Destruction: How ESG Mandates Are Destroying Capitalism, Costing You Money and Wrecking America (soon to be published by Greenleaf.)

Our message to readers: Don’t be fooled by the hype.

From air quality concerns to greenhouse gases and carbon footprints, the elites “who know best” are suggesting the big E on the eye-chart means preferring the environment over those who live in it—all in the name of protection and preservation.

P.S. they are collecting your data to make sure you comply.

And that’s not all.

It seems the globalists are more concerned with the average planetary temperature than of your home or the heat required to cook your dinner. (That may explain why gas stoves and fireplaces have come under recent scrutiny and are being considered for future bans.)

But here’s the weird thing.

As “enlightened” politicians push for banning gas stoves, VP Kamala Harris has just been caught posting on socials in front of her own gas stove.

Good for she, not for thee.

But the tyranny doesn’t stop at home.

Suppose you run a company. You’re now being told by the ESG police that the way to keep your customers—not to mention your high ESG score—is to rework your manufacturing, your distribution, and your messaging.

All the while, the veiled threat of canceling or de-platforming your business looms large, seeking a single misstep.

To avoid such risks, you must prioritize expensive and unprofitable ESG measures: Shift to an EV fleet. Install solar panels. Turn off the lights. Or else.

Keeping up appearances can be exhausting. Bowing to ESG ideologies can be taxing. But standing up against the tide can be… exhilarating.

Here’s to turning the lights back on in 2024—the light of hope and resolve—something that won’t be snuffed out by lies masquerading as virtue.