"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many, doing too well economically, and burning too much oil." - Sir James Lovelock, BBC Interview
Viv Forbes, in a media release on August 1, 2016, announced the founding of Clexit, Climate Exit, by "over 60 well-informed science, business and economic leaders from 16 countries."
Forbes announced in his press release that ratification of the Paris accord will suppress the developed world with "pointless carbon taxes and costly climate and energy policies" that have no rational basis and are based on consensus. Such green and destructive polices are destroying real industries while "enriching the huge and parasitical climate-change industry that thrives on bureaucracy, misdirected government research, law books of costly regulations, never-ending conferences and subsidies for promoters of the failing technologies of renewable energy."