The naysayers and environmental wackos who want to restrict meat consumption, ban gas stoves, and mandate electric vehicle use have a new target in their sights: the return of supersonic jet travel. In the 1970s the SST could fly from London to New York in about three hours.

Boom Supersonic, the Denver-based company that is building a successor to the Concorde, tested its XB-1 demonstration aircraft over the Mojave Desert last spring. The 64-seat plane, which will cruise at 1,300 miles per hour, will go supersonic in a flight later this year.

Company founder Brian Scholl says he finds it “depressing” that the company is being attacked by “flight shaming” activists who want to put an end to mass air travel.

“There are some people who look at this and say, ‘Well, I guess we should use less energy, we should go to fewer places.,'” Scholl told reporters.

“I believe in a future of abundance. I believe the North Star is human flourishing and that we should build a future in which more people can go to more places more often.”

He notes that his firm’s planes will use new synthetic fuels that will reduce overall CO2 emissions and “the sonic boom we’re going to put out over the open ocean where no one’s going to hear it.”

Kudos to Scholl for recognizing that in business, speed and time are literally money, and in the leisure market more people are ready to pay for a premium product. “I want to have a future where we have more and better things for us as humans, and we make the world around us a place that we can enjoy even more,” he says. “We can absolutely have that future. We just have to build it.”

The left is fighting against the future.