There was a time when science sought truth. Now, too often, it seeks submission. The high priests of modern environmentalism no longer invite questions — they demand faith. Their creed is simple: the end is near, humanity is to blame, and redemption lies in sacrifice. Carbon is the new original sin, and the temple is the United Nations. What began as a legitimate concern for the planet has metastasized into a religion of catastrophe — one that worships fear and punishes dissent.

To say this is not to deny the reality of climate change. The climate is changing, as it always has. Human activity contributes to it, as it always has in some form. The issue is not whether the climate is changing, but what we do with that fact. For the modern alarmist, climate change is not a challenge to be managed; it is an apocalypse to be prevented — at any cost. And it is that “any cost” that has become both the moral and practical catastrophe of our age.