Yeah, click bait. Once in a while, it’s a blogger’s guilty pleasure, but not quite a field to far to go on this one – this mal-spawned hot mess of the grandson of Kyoto. Fifty thousand attendees carboning it up just to demand that we all carbon down. And their tactics are quite familiar – from RedState, a great explanation why we call them Watermelon environmentalists (emphasis mine):
…Many environmentalists are watermelons. Green on the outside, inside they are as red as any communist ever was. It is not a coincidence that the environmental movement picked up strength after the Soviet Union collapsed. The propagandists for communism against capitalism had to go somewhere. They went to the environmental movement.
With demands for state subsidy, an agenda hostile to western powers, and a deep antipathy toward free markets and capitalism, the two groups merged. Like Stalinists before them, environmental elite wish to purge society of capitalists, anyone who challenges them, and free market ideas. Like communists before them, they wrap themselves in a moral banner for war — against rising sea levels, against drought, against all sorts of things no right thinking person could be against.
And like the communists of old, the environmentalists also love their five year plans.






