The Left in the developed world knows what it wants. Conservatives don’t know what they want so much as they know what they don’t like, which is whatever the Left wants. So, there is a tendency, in the absence of a coherent world view of where we came from and the whys and wherefores of social customs, for conservatives to reflexively adopt the opposite view of the Left on any and all subjects. Taking other people’s stuff by force of the state, which is socialism, was discredited by the collapse of communism in 1991 and more recently the implosion of Venezuela. So, the Left needed another organising principle and settled upon global warming. Global warming allows the Left to paint the future as a dystopian one of shortages and great suffering. Thus we are told that we will have to give up meat, live mostly on beans with the occasional insect for animal protein. You may laugh and say that is not going to happen, but the Left has been maligning a trace gas in the...(Read Full Article)