> I find it exceptionally offensive... Not sure what you mean with this. What I was trying to say is that the political side that is traditionally more vocal a

> I find it exceptionally offensive... Not sure what you mean with this. What I was trying to say is that the political side that is traditionally more vocal about the need to improve the condition of the poorest (I think we can agree on this- that's what defines the left anyway) has- in my opinion- lost its way by focusing too much on the climate issue as if it were the source and the solution of all problems. More, I think that the left has actually bent the climate issue (which is at its core a scientific issue, something that transcends any value judgement) to the point of making it coincide exactly with its fundamental ideological framework- which explains why climate change is felt as such a central problem by leftwing/ liberals and leaves rightwing/ conservatives so sceptical. (To give you an example of what I mean with this: you'd expect campaigners for action against climate change to organise big rallies in favour of the construction of hundreds of nuclear plants- or at least for more money into research for cheap and safe nuclear energy. This doesn't happen because the issue of climate change has been shaped into a glove that fits perfectly the ideological framework of the left: less industry, less capitalism, less consumption, more redistribution).