Foster: The left’s climate moralism

“The left is showing more moralism on climate than the right,” writes Peter Foster in the second of his two-part series.

Foster says,

Adam Smith and David Hume suggested that we should be wary of our moral intuitions, particularly when it comes to religion and politics, but they also explained why such self-examination was unlikely. After all, who wants to admit that he is not merely a slave to his passions, but inclined to science-bending demonization because he has an irrational hatred of capitalism, and is sitting on a subconscious elephant motivated by a lust for power?

Read Foster’s full column in the Financial Post.

Read Part 1 of Foster’s two-part series, The moral climate.”

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