I’m guessing that China’s environmentalism will come, but only if and when they get used to being able to afford a full stomach and a warm and well lit house around them.

I’m also guessing that our greenism will have died around the same time, for loss of the same basics.

The question for us is, whether prosperity will return as a result of the greenism dying, or whether the state will continue its self perpetuating plunder of wealth from those who produce it.

The loss of 1/3rd of Europe’s population in the 14th century can be laid at the immediate door of the black death, but behind that is the weakening of their imune systems by the collapse of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP for short).

If we follow the greens in denying the existence of the MWP, then we are left with the impoverishment of the population at the hands of their war mongering kings’ tax collectors and bureaucrats as the only enabler of the plagues.

The taxing of the Champagne trading fairs and the collapse of international trade under taxation, and the expropriation of the funds of bankers and merchants, and the debasement of coinage.

De-ja Vous?

Just a personal guess, and apologies if someone else has commented this before me.

ps
I picked up on a train of lithium bearing pegmatite material in the boulderclay about two miles from home today. That stuff generally contains tantalum minerals too – good job the local greens just got voted out! Next job is to follow it to its bedrock source.