Environmental crusaders claim to want a more kumbayah world, but they’re apparently willing to advocate the most hideous violence to achieve it. A British climate fear group called the 10:10 Campaign is advocating that everyone cut their carbon emissions by 10 percent. To illustrate, they produced a video depicting a teacher leading her class in brainstorming for ideas. When two students react indifferently, the teacher shrugs it off, saying, “No pressure,” but then nonchalantly pushes a button, blowing up the two children.

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As Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto explains, “The ‘crime’ for which the children in the video are ‘executed’ is one of omission, not commission. They are murdered not even for dissenting against 10:10’s political crusade, but merely for being indifferent to it. This is the essence of totalitarianism.” This theme is repeated three more times in other contexts, all with adults.

Perhaps the 10:10 Campaign is taking cues from Osama bin Laden, whose penchant for blowing up innocents is well documented. The terrorist kingpin recently raised the green flag, claiming, “Massive climate change is affecting our nation and is causing great catastrophes throughout the Islamic world.” At fault, of course, are Americans, whom he believes “have destroyed nature with [our] industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history.”

For its part, the White House seems eager to join the environmental crusade and Osama bin Laden by installing solar panels atop 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Somehow, we doubt bin Laden will be appeased. Somewhere, though, Jimmy Carter must be smiling.