In the early 1990s, in the wake of the Berlin Wall crumbling and the Soviet Union dissolving, global leaders were left scrambling for an ideology that would fill the void left by then-discredited 'communism.'
Enter manmade global warming. It was a doomsday prophecy based on a simple thesis: The industrial revolution had spurred a massive influx of temperature-increasing gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, and without an overhaul of Western society to make for a "greener" planet, the world would experience a complete meltdown.
