Wildfires, heat waves and blackouts exposed the green agenda’s dangerous flaws

This summer, secular environmentalism died in plain sight.

From the choking wildfire smoke blanketing American cities to the deadly European heat wave to the crumbling power grid in New York, the evidence is piling up: decades of ideology masquerading as environmental stewardship have left people less safe while doing little to help the environment.

Start with Canada.

More than 800 wildfires burned across the country this summer, and the smoke descended on over 100 million Americans from Milwaukee to Washington D.C.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney blamed the fires on climate change.

But that raises an obvious question: if climate change is driving these disasters, then what exactly have decades of Canada's aggressive climate policies accomplished? By Carney's own logic, they've failed.

Canadians accepted higher energy costs, more regulation, yet the forests are still burning and Americans are breathing the smoke.

Canada has been governed for years by politicians who embraced the secular environmentalist vision wholesale.

Prime Minister Carney is a former U.N. special envoy on climate action.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the poster child of left-wing climate policy.

Canada has had over a decade of committed "climate leadership." 20 YEARS LATER, AL GORE AND HIS DIRECTOR DEFEND THEIR CONTROVERSIAL CLIMATE MOVIE 'AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH' Yet the fires are still here, not despite secular environmentalists, but because of them.

Environmental groups have blocked the very forest management practices that prevent catastrophic wildfires, opposing forest thinning, firebreaks and controlled burns on the grounds that human intervention is inherently destructive.

As Andrew Hale of Advancing American Freedom put it, Canada's wildfire policies reflect the "undue influence of environmental groups who are firmly politically motivated and have divorced themselves from science and good stewardship." The 2023 Canadian wildfires alone released nearly 480 megatonnes of carbon, roughly twice the annual emissions of global aviation.

The fires this year could be even worse.