When I was studying for my GCSEs last year, Science lessons were a combination of rote learning of facts not well-explained and gross propaganda for the climate change myth. It was short work to do my own research and to learn that, for my own lifetime, and for decades before that, the climate change lobby had been making routine prophecies of disaster, none of which came true.

Consider some of these claims. In 1970, we were told a new ice age was coming. In the 1980s, it was acid rain that would wipe out forests. By the 1990s, the ozone layer was the great catastrophe. None of these turned out to be the apocalyptic events they were promised to be, yet the people making the warnings were never held accountable. They just moved on to the next big panic. Now, it’s rising sea levels and catastrophic global warming unless we “act now.” Of course, “acting now” means more regulations, higher taxes, and stricter controls over what ordinary people can do with their lives.

This is not science. Science is supposed to involve testable hypotheses, falsifiability, and evidence that stands up to scrutiny. Climate alarmism, on the other hand, is a cult, endlessly shifting the goalposts every time reality refuses to comply with their predictions. Take the polar bears—one of their favourite mascots. We were told they were on the brink of extinction due to melting ice caps. Yet, inconveniently, polar bear numbers have actually increased.

Similarly, the much-repeated claim that we only have “twelve years to save the planet” keeps being reset every few years. We’ve been hearing about imminent climate deadlines since at least the 1980s. If their predictions were correct, we should all have drowned or starved to death several times over by now. And yet, here we are.

The truth is that climate change is less a science than an industry. Billions flow into it through taxes, carbon credit schemes, and government subsidies to “green” energy projects. These projects, more often than not, are run by the same elites who scream the loudest about impending doom. Al Gore, for example, made hundreds of millions off climate alarmism while living in a mansion with a carbon footprint larger than a village. Meanwhile, ordinary working people are told they must eat bugs and stop heating their homes properly to save the planet.

The real beneficiaries of this agenda are not future generations but present-day oligarchs who use it to extract wealth from ordinary working people while consolidating their own power. Governments seize the opportunity to impose ever greater controls, whether through bans on petrol cars, absurd restrictions on farming, or direct rationing of energy. In some cases, they don’t even bother hiding their objectives. There have been explicit discussions from figures at the World Economic Forum about reducing personal car ownership and cutting back on meat consumption, all dressed up as necessary sacrifices for the environment.

Of course, some argue that it is not just about money or control but something more sinister: a desire to reduce the global population. There is no denying that many of the most committed alarmists openly discuss the need for “population control.” They claim the world cannot sustain its current population and that dramatic reductions are necessary. Some of them seem very enthusiastic about that.

Whether through aggressive sterilisation policies in developing countries, or simply making life so economically unviable for families that people stop having children, the ruling class seems committed to ensuring that the number of ordinary people is kept as low as possible. The most extreme theories claim they want a 90 per cent reduction, though even a much smaller cut would serve their purposes just fine.

The key point is that they always exempt themselves from these restrictions. They will still fly in private jets while banning short-haul flights for the rest of us. They will still eat steak while pushing insects as a protein source for the masses. They will still live in sprawling mansions while lecturing ordinary people about the importance of living in cramped, soulless “15-minute cities.” Of course, frauds like Boris Johnson will moan about population growth while fathering a dozen parasites to replace himself.

So, this is not about saving the planet. It is about power, money, and control. It is about creating a world in which ordinary people own nothing, eat what they are told, and live under constant surveillance—all while being told it is for their own good.

If the ruling class actually cared about the environment, they wouldn’t be enriching themselves through fake green energy scams. They wouldn’t be jetting off to climate conferences in Davos. And they certainly wouldn’t be pushing economic policies that ship manufacturing to China while punishing domestic industries in the West. They don’t care about the planet. They care about ruling over us.