Warmist Jonathan Franzen on the Warmist religion | Grist

One of the big problems for people who want to do something about climate change is that the welfare-of-your-grandkids argument is totally abstract. Ditto Bangladesh flooding. That's a long way away. Who cares? You can threaten people by telling them that bad things are going to happen to you. But it smacks of Protestant morality: "You're sinning, and you're all going to hell. You're sinning against the environment, and the hell will be an environmental hell." And so the smugness of the environmentalists is maybe akin to the smugness of the saved: "I'm walking around saved!" "I'm walking around in my hemp shoes!"

Cancún climate change summit: Let's show we mean business | Richard Branson | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Experts predict that we must invest more than $550bn annually into the next generation of low-carbon intensive energy system.