The only difference between oppressor and oppressed . . .

. . . is opportunity.

Following from an essay by Walter Russell Mead cited by Matt Ridley:

When it comes to climate change, the environmental movement has gotten itself on the wrong side of doubt. It has become the voice of the establishment, of the tenured, of the technocrats. It proposes big economic and social interventions and denies that unintended consequences and new information could vitiate the power of its recommendations. It knows what is good for us, and its knowledge is backed up by the awesome power and majesty of the peer-review process. The political, cultural, business and scientific establishments stand firmly behind global warming today - just as they once stood firmly behind Robert Moses, urban renewal, and big dams [the targets of the early US environmentalists].

They tell us it’s a sin to question the consensus, the sign of bad moral character to doubt.

Bambi, look in the mirror. You will see Godzilla looking back.