I am a 71-year-old thinker who sees his own death on the horizon.  I therefore want to confess my greatest sin: when analyzing the ecological crisis I have committed thoughtcrimes.  Specifically, I have used facts,  logic, and an independent mind when I should have trusted the IPCC, the Guardian, and the other representatives of the Party and Big Brother.  As George Orwell might have said in 1984, I am an environmental thought-criminal.