Climate change fanatics love to talk about saving the planet, but many of them eventually slip and say the quiet part out loud – the war on energy is all part of a revolutionary plan to restructure Western civilization and restrain individual freedom

Take Los Angeles Times environmental reporter Rosanna Xia, who just wrote a piece with this headline:

Xia believes the Earth is so doomed that she wonders “whether I could ever justify bringing my own children into this world.”

She says we must “reimagine the systems that got us into such a devastating crisis in the first place,” by which she means capitalism. (She is apparently unfamiliar with the woeful environmental records of Communist nations.)

She’s not alone. Christiana Figueres, one-time executive secretary of the United Nations’ Framework Convention on Climate Change, says her priority is “to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution.”

Noted author Naomi Klein believes the world must “change, or be changed” because an “economic system” – free markets – has caused environmental “wreckage.”

“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” former Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti told the Washington Post. “We really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”

That’s pretty much become the mantra of the left.