https://organelle.medium.com/climate-change-is-functioning-as-a-red-herring-9300cdd547be

I have often argued that ‘climate change’ is a red herring that is pivotal in distracting audiences (by the way, these are mostly passive spectators) from the actual issues of intentional environmental devastation, catastrophic pollution of every possible aspect of the environment, and … the real problem … a geometric rise in the production of disposable objects and machine populations.

“To blame population growth instead of extreme and selective consumerism on the part of some, is one way of refusing to face the issues. It is an attempt to legitimize the present model of distribution, where a minority believes that it has the right to consume in a way which can never be universalized, since the planet could not even contain the waste products of such consumption.”

— Pope Francis, Laudato Si