Environmentalism Became Marxism with a Recycling Bin

"No amount of wind or solar will meaningfully change Earth’s temperature."
— Bill Gates

The global warming priesthood has finally met its Galileo moment.

After decades of doomsday sermons, manipulated models, and taxpayer tithing to the "Green Church," the mask is off.

The climate crusade was never about saving the planet. It was about controlling the people, all of us.

In my book "13½ Reasons Why Not to Be a Liberal," I referenced "The Big Green Elephant." The environmental movement began as conservation and mutated into coercion. Real environmentalism honors stewardship.

Climate activism demands submission.

What started with Rachel Carson's reverence for nature metastasized into Al Gore's carbon-credit capitalism. Gore's theology of guilt turns prosperity into sin and government into savior.

The hard data always betrayed the narrative.

Global temperatures have oscillated for millennia.

The Roman Warming, the Medieval Warm Period, and the Little Ice Age all occurred long before the first Ford Model T ever rolled off the line.

Even NASA's own records show century-scale temperature variations of less than two degrees Celsius. Yet the "consensus" demanded the silence and blacklisting of credentialed scientists who dared question the catechism.

Thankfully President Donald Trump did what few leaders had the courage to do.

He pulled the plug.

By exiting the Paris and Kyoto Accords, President Trump ended a global wealth transfer scheme dressed up as virtue.

In one stroke, he freed America from energy servitude and restored economic sovereignty.

While the left screamed about the coming apocalypse, emissions kept dropping without their bureaucratic chains.

Where intimidation and regulation failed, innovation succeeded.

Energy independence became both environmental and economic policy.

Gregory Wrightstone, author of Inconvenient Facts, documented the same truth. CO₂ is not a pollutant, but plant food. More CO₂ has greened the planet by 14% since 1980.

Extreme weather deaths have plummeted 98% since the 1920s.

Hurricanes, droughts, and fires fluctuate naturally.

The models predicting catastrophe failed every test of time. Stubborn, empirical, non-grant-funded facts proved the climate "crisis" was contrived in the most egregious of ways. 

Even long-term climate zealot Bill Gates now concedes that "No amount of wind or solar will meaningfully change Earth’s temperature."

The empire of green fear has officially lost its clothes.

The billionaire who once funded every carbon offset now admits that the planet's energy balance is far beyond political manipulation.

For rational thinkers, this was always painfully obvious.

Gates's quiet reversal is seismic.

Since his Microsoft days, Gates has always enjoyed power and prestige.

Now that the science is no longer serving the narrative, the narrative can no longer serve his quest for more power, and more prestige.

The green movement was the perfect Trojan horse for collectivism.

Under the banner of "Climate Justice," it smuggled in global wealth redistribution, anti-industry policy, and guilt-based obedience.

The only environment the modern left truly fights for is the fight to control the environment of ideas.

Environmentalism became Marxism with a recycling bin.

People could trade their SUVs for social credit and their freedoms for "sustainability."

By weaponizing nature itself, progressives found their moral bludgeon.

Skeptics were not just wrong.

They were destroying the planet, and therefore evil.

It's impossible to have a reasonable debate with someone who thinks dissent equals genocidal extinction.

Americans should invest innovation, not fear.

Humanity powered by American ingenuity has always evolved its way out of scarcity.

From the steam engine to the smartphone, our species innovates faster than it pollutes.

By the time climate bureaucrats finish another 300-page grant proposal, entrepreneurs will already have built cleaner engines, smarter grids, and synthetic fuels that render government mandates irrelevant.

Problems are solved by free markets, not five-year plans.

Prosperous nations protect their environment more effectively than poor ones.

Energy poverty kills far more people than CO₂ ever will.

Republicans and the remaining rational Democrats care deeply about the planet.

We just care differently.

We believe in clean air, clean water, and clean data.

We opt for stewardship, not submission.

Now that the smoke of fear has cleared, the adults are back in the room.

Bill Gates blinked.

The science bent to the truth.

The emperor stands unclothed in a sea of canceled forecasts.

The climate-industrial complex was a trillion-dollar fusion of activism, academia, and anxiety. This green cabal finally hit the wall of reality.

The jig is up. Mother Nature remains mysterious, humanity remains inventive, and democracy remains the best environmental policy ever written.

Trump was right.

The planet didn't burn.

The economy thrived.

The only thing getting hotter is the left's embarrassment.

The only thing evaporating is the radical green movement's credibility.

The cultural Marxist weaponization of climate can now end.

We now head onward in sharing our great mutual love and respect for Mother Nature and this wondrous planet that God gave us all.

Thank you, Bill Gates. As Trump said, Gates made a courageous and bold move.

Host of "Unapologetic with Judd Dunning" on KABC AM 790, Judd Dunning, is a political author, host, pundit, and producer. He's created and hosted political media projects. Judd is a Newsmax regular guest commentator. As an author, he wrote the bestselling Humanix/Newsmax Book "13½ Reasons Why Not To Be A Liberal: And How to Enlighten Others." He's presently in the production of his next book, "13½ Reasons to Love America: How to Stop the Angry Woke Left and Preserve the America We Love." He's represented by Karen Gantz Literary Management (www.karengantzliterarymanagement.com) and for radio and public relations by Sandy Frazier (www.SandyPundits.com) — More Here.