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The Koch Brothers’ Crucial Role in Climate-Change Denial
“Kochland” is deeply and authoritatively reported. It marshals a huge amount of information and uses it to help solve two enduring mysteries: how the Kochs got so rich, and how they used that fortune to buy off American action on climate change.
The two brothers from Wichita, Kansas built up Koch Industries, a privately owned business so profitable that together they have amassed some hundred and twenty billion dollars, a fortune larger than that of Amazon’s C.E.O., Jeff Bezos, or the Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
With the help of allies such as Vice-President Mike Pence, the politics that the Kochs stoked in 2010 became the policies that Trump enacted in 2017. Whether announcing his intention to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, placing shills from the oil and coal industries at the head of federal energy and environmental departments, or slashing taxes on corporations and the ultra-wealthy, Trump has delivered for the Kochs.
“Kochland” is important, Davies said, because it makes it clear that “you’d have a carbon tax, or something better, today, if not for the Kochs. They stopped anything from happening back when there was still time.” The book also documents how, in 2010, the company’s lobbyists spent gobs of cash and swarmed Congress as part of a multi-pronged effort to kill the first, and so far the last, serious effort to place a price on carbon pollution—the proposed “cap and trade” bill. Magnifying the Kochs’ power was their network of allied donors, anonymously funded shell groups, think tanks, academic centers, and nonprofit advocacy groups, which Koch insiders referred to as their “echo chamber.”
Others have chronicled the cap-and-trade fight well, but Leonard penetrates the inner sanctum of the Kochs’ lobbying machine, showing that, from the start, even when other parts of the company could have benefited from an embrace of alternative energy, Koch Industries regarded any compromise that might reduce fossil-fuel consumption as unacceptable. Protecting its fossil-fuel profits was, and remains, the company’s top political priority. Leonard shows that the Kochs, to achieve this end, worked to hijack the Tea Party movement and, eventually, the Republican Party itself.
Leonard quotes Philip Ellender, Koch Industries’ top lobbyist, as claiming, in 2014, that the Earth had gotten cooler in the previous eighteen years. In fact, according to NASA, eighteen of the nineteen hottest years on record have occurred in the past two decades. Yet the Koch machine bought its way into Congress and turned climate-change denial into an unchallengeable Republican talking point. Meanwhile, after the cap-and-trade bill died, the planet continued heating, and the Kochs’ net worth doubled.
More at www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/kochland-examines-how-the-koch-br
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"Kochland"
I bet that doesn't make it past the YouTube censors.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
"Kochland"
I bet that doesn't make it past the YouTube censors.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Well it was just because I hear so many people prounce Koch as "cock".
Cockland sounds like a gay theme park loosely related to Wishy's Cumberworld.
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Even Fox News is getting on the bandwagon for the end of the world, but rather than GNP going to zero because we are all dead, it is only being cut by 10%:
Climate change will shrink 'virtually all' economies around the globe by 2100, study warns
The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggests that countries that are warm, cold, rich or poor will all see a significant loss of income if they do not abide by the 2015 Paris Agreement.
"Using a panel data set of 174 countries over the years 1960 to 2014, we find that per-capita real output growth is adversely affected by persistent changes in the temperature above or below its historical norm, but we do not obtain any statistically significant effects for changes in precipitation," the study's abstract states. "Our counterfactual analysis suggests that a persistent increase in average global temperature by 0.04°C per year, in the absence of mitigation policies, reduces world real GDP per capita by 7.22 percent by 2100."
The impact on the U.S. — which accounted for much of the research's focus to compare economic activity in hot or wet areas — would be even greater, a loss of 10.5 percent of its GDP by 2100, according to the researchers.
www.foxnews.com/science/climate-change-shrink-economies-globe-2100
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Oh, imagine that...
Multinational owned FOX news getting on board with multinational owned CNN and multinational owned MSNBC to terrorize the proles.
Zippy do da.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Keep drinking that bottled water, buying made in China shit you don't need and using that car air conditioning while virtue signalling about the 5 minutes it took you to vote twice.
Car air conditioning???? I'm guessing yours doesn't work in that '90's beater of yours? Getting a lovely case of swamp ass this summer??
The ironic thing here is, in BOTH of our Chevys the cat converters are tied into the function of the A/C and we just spent $2500 to replace them. Both of our vehicles running are prolly cleaner than the shit you drive.
In case you don't have a clue what a Cat does, it basically is designed to clean up all of the carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and hydrocarbons that are emitted into the atmosphere during combustion. I never just take it for granted you know...ANYTHING, tho.
Putin IS the new Hitler. Get ready to lock and load!
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Since 6ixstringjack, Signym, and Jewelstaitefan insist on calling me names in every post, I will save time by letting any visitors know they are incompetent, fascist, and brain dead by autoposting this. Ye have been warned.
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What's a matter Wishy?
4 syllable words too tough for you?
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Oh BTW WISHY, thanks for misquoting me in your signature line. Why don't you provide a link so people can see the true quote and full context, instead of lying with every post?
Or is that too honest for you?
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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Oh BTW WISHY, thanks for misquoting me in your signature line. Why don't you provide a link so people can see the true quote and full context, instead of lying with every post?
Um, NO. Nazis are Nazis are Nazis. If you call yourself a Nazi, you ARE a Nazi. Intent is exactly the same. When you realize the full stupidity of your question, I'll be happy to take it down.
Putin IS the new Hitler. Get ready to lock and load!
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