British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the United Nations on Wednesday that he did not agree with environmental activists who use climate change as a pretext to attack capitalism. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly, Johnson said: “I don’t see the green movement as a pretext for a wholesale assault on capitalism. Far from it.” Extinction Rebellion, a climate activist group driven by an extreme anti-capitalist ideology, has in recent years been trying to rally people to its cause by deliberately causing disruption. The group staged prolonged demonstrations in April and October 2019 and September 2020, when protesters blocked entrances, halted traffic, glued themselves to buildings and roads, defaced a statue of Britain’s wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and disrupted newspaper printing. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel described the group as “so-called eco-crusaders turned criminals,” and the London Metropolitan Police said last month more than £50 million ($68 million) had been …