I think most folks who are in favor of global warming don’t hide behind the “It’s for the environment” banner. Not that long ago the anti-capitalism/free market folks could smell victory, but since polls show Most people don’t think AGW is a serious issue, they have dropped all pretense about their motivations.
At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
"This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution," she said.
The only economic model in the last 150 years (that has ever worked)"> at all is capitalism.