Pipeline Hate is Misplaced

By Michael James Barton

Sixteen-year-old Swedish student Greta Thunberg admonished global leaders at last year's United Nations: "We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!"

But it's her parents who are daring. Why terrorize children with fairy tales of mass extinction?

When faced with a choice between easy rhetoric and actual science-based reductions in greenhouse emissions, green activists opt for emotional grandstanding. So it was no surprise when Greta visited American Indian reservations in th...