His name was Maurice Strong (picture above), Canadian billionaire, diplomat and UN apparatchik, and though you may not have heard of him, he probably did more to make your world a more expensive, inconvenient, overregulated, hectored, bullied, lied-to, sclerotic, undemocratic place than anyone post, Stalin and (his personal friend) Mao.
Heâs the reason, for example, that most of the…