The U.S. Isn’t Leading the World on Climate Change Mitigation, and That’s Not Likely to Shift
From Bloomberg:
The House Judiciary Committee said it’s found “substantial evidence of collusion and anticompetitive behavior” by the financial industry to “impose radical ESG goals” on U.S. companies.
An interim report published by the Republican-led committee said “a cartel” of financial firms and climate activists sought to replace Exxon Mobil Corp. board members in 2021 after the company declined to make a series of climate pledges.
How pathetic. It looks like Congress is lining up to take action against the segment of the financial industry that is concerned that Big Oil is on a quest to bake our planet so as to enhance its profit levels.
I advise those wringing their hands about all this to content themselves with the sad fact that, at this point, it seems extremely unlikely that the United States will lead the world in the direction of environmental sustainability. We just re-elected a president whose entire support base believes that concern for the health of our planet is for woke sissies, and whose cabinet picks are even more aggressive on the subject than the president-elect himself.
My advice: just relax, have a glass of wine, and hope that the other 95+% of the world’s population does a better job here than we Americans. They can’t do any worse.
It looks like the majority of Americans are thrilled to see the ushering in of an administration that features an alcoholic Fox News host running the Pentagon, an anti-vaxxer crackpot supervising our health, a statutory rapist sitting atop U.S. law enforcement, and an FBI director who has sworn to exact revenge against Trump’s enemies.
There is a reason that the United States doesn’t resemble Sweden, and that is it’s harder for billionaires to become multi-billionaires.
From his Wikipedia page:
In my recent post: 
Yes, Trump lied to the MAGA crowd, but hearing the truth from their hero isn’t a big deal; it never was, and it never will be.
Which U.S. state will be most profoundly affected if Ontario cuts off power transmission in retaliation of the imposition of tariffs? A quick look at a map answers that immediately.
At left is a quote from 19th Century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.
If you tried to list all the elements of hypocrisy associated with the commandment “Thou shalt not kill,” you’d be busy for a very long time. War, the death penalty, genocide via bombs or starving out entire populations, refusing women life-saving abortions when their lives will certainly perish if they carry a diseased pregnancy to term…there really is no end.
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