Democrat professor's liberal critique of Paris climate agreement

Ezra Levant talks to Professor Joel Kotkin, a liberal Democrat who opposes the Paris global warming (COP21) agreement. MORE news and opinion

Kotkin, the Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, says the agreement will "force the middle class of the West to pay for policies that are going to damage large parts of the economy." Meanwhile, "India and China have no intention of doing this."

He says progressive "Silicon Valley" types in particular are insular and privileged, and their growing insistence on censoring social media and championing open borders reflects that. "If you're Mark Zuckerberg, you want to have good ethnic restaurants and good gardeners" but what about how this hurts ordinary Americans?

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