“The “real” agenda of environmentalists – and the scientists who provided the data on which they relied – was to destroy capitalism and replace it with some sort of worldwide utopian Socialism – or perhaps Communism. That echoed a common right-wing refrain in the early 1990s: that environmental regulation was the slippery slope to Socialism. In 1992, columnist George Will encapsulated this view, saying that environmentalism was a “green tree with red roots.”99.”
