Corporate America Wants Climate Change Mitigation?
From Scientific American:
A big slice of corporate America—including utilities, banks and auto manufacturers—signed onto a statement yesterday calling on President-elect Joe Biden to work with Congress on “ambitious, durable, bipartisan climate solutions.”
I’d like to believe this is true. Yet even if it is, a lot of these people speak with “fork-ed tongue.” Big banks want climate change solutions? Where do you think the financing for the fossil fuel infrastructure is coming from? Santa Claus?
I suppose all this turns on what the author here means by “big.” Yes, there are industries that don’t have dogs in the fight, but please don’t tell me that Ford wants to see a dramatic reduction in VMT (vehicle miles travelled), e.g., by replacing passenger cars with mass transit, or that no one will be building oil pipelines because capital formation is no longer possible, or that retailers are hoping for a less consumer-driven society.
Someone asked a 2GreenEnergy reader: Why don’t you own an AR-15 yet?
But when we do, it will be excellent. The very best plan. Far better than Obamacare. And less expensive. All your pre-existing conditions will be covered. The perfect plan. Actually, there will be several different plans.
This clearly isn’t the type of country that Americans want to live in.
And people say we have nothing to celebrate. Horse hockey. 
We’re surrounded by reminders of how 2020 has been a year of events that make no sense.
Imagine that a survey had been taken annually since the inception of the nation, in which 1000 randomly chosen Americans were asked if they agreed or disagreed with Melville’s statement here. I’m guessing that a large majority would have agreed with only a few exceptions throughout U.S. history, e.g., perhaps the Second World War….until about 1980, with the onset of neoliberalism, along with all its components and derivatives: greed, selfishness, indifference to others’ suffering, robo-consumerism, hatred of immigrants, the rapid decay of ethical standards, and the return of socially acceptable overt racism.
You’ll not find a single organization on this planet more dedicated to environmental sustainability via the removal of waste in our lives than the Story of Stuff. I met SoS founder Annie Leonard after a talk she gave a few years ago, and couldn’t help but fall all over myself, praising her for the terrific work she’s been doing in sharing ideas along this lines.
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Needless to say, most supporters of the president are fans of Melania as well. One of her boosters put this on Facebook, and began his comment, “She fled a communist country, …..”
