24/07/2025
The Carbon Guilt Trip
Let’s dig deeper into one example: climate change and carbon emissions. Here’s a case where economics was disguised as ethics so effectively that many don’t even see the sleight-of-hand.
We’re told there’s nothing more moral than reducing your ‘carbon footprint’. Entire lifestyles are now judged by how ‘green’ they are. But behind the scenes, a complex system is being built that has little to do with polar bears or forests – it’s about controlling economics via carbon, all under the moral umbrella of saving the planet.
Consider the setup:
First, predict an apocalyptic climate future with computer models. (We’ve all seen the graphs with red lines shooting up to doom.)
Second, declare a moral imperative to cut carbon emissions drastically. (World leaders literally say ‘It’s our moral duty to act on climate’.)
Third, implement policies that create artificial carbon scarcity. Governments set caps on emissions and issue a limited number of carbon ‘permits’ or credits. This creates a brand-new commodity: permission to emit CO2.
Fourth, force everyone to use this new system. If a farmer wants to run a tractor, a factory wants to run a furnace, or a family wants to heat their home, they must have carbon credits. No credits, no activity. Over time, everyday life becomes contingent on buying into the carbon control system.
What’s really going on here? They’ve invented a grand moral narrative (‘saving the climate’) to justify the creation of an expansive economic control grid. By deciding who gets how many carbon credits, they can decide who gets to do what, when, and how much. It’s central planning in all but name, made palatable by a veneer of ethical necessity.
And if you question any of it, you’re not debating policy anymore — you’re evil. Who wants to speak up and be branded a planet traitor? Thus the control grid grows with popular support, not resistance.
