It's everything about money. Carbon taxes equate to an unlimited stream of money for the government from business and citizens for what is essentially pseudoscience. Educational institutions get government funding, tenures and subsidies to push this pseudoscience. Some business profits from the green initiatives by lobbying dipshit politicians who are willing to make an extra buck to read from the narrative and give contracts their way. It's nearly always about money over power. Lockdowns and COVID were everything about selling ppe contra ts, vaccines and increasing profits on monopoly business over small business, pushing interest rates and raising debt. Money.