Rejecting Climate Policy Is Not a Crime

Travis Fisher It was bound to happen. Activists are signaling support for the fringe legal theory of “climate homicide,” the notion that certain people and companies should be held criminally responsible for deaths related to climate change. Although it is factually backward and legally dubious, some academics and the shrinking minority of the “climate alarmed” are taking it seriously.

, No one else should, as it would become the latest, gravest threat to human prosperity. Between the Bill Gates memo in October, which elevated human welfare over draconian climate policy, and the lackluster November COP30 meeting in Brazil, climate activists had a tough year in 2025. Months prior, rational environmentalists endorsed economic growth over “net zero,” not because they deny climate change, but