from masterresource
By Robert Bradley Jr. — October 1, 2024
“The climate movement is grappling with a set of problems of its own making. As reality continues to bite back, the anti-CO2 movement will have fewer defenders.
The climate industry complex wants taxes, regulations and subsidies, not debate (“Report, block, don’t engage,” says McKerman). But Climate Week New York, hosted by climate groups, allows for (a very small number of) alarmist alternative voices and forces the energy transition at its more than 600 promoted events.
Hardcore upset. “The presence of fossil fuels at New York Climate Week highlights dissonance in the clean energy transition,” complained Inside climate news. “Blah, blah, blah,” Liza Featherstone wrote in TNR; “This is no longer an urgent call to action, but the closest thing the climate movement has to a trade show right now, a week of great lunches and Private drinks as well as announcements of new investment funds, new green commitments from businesses and countries and thought leaders taking the opportunity to demonstrate their sincerity on climate issues.
The Associated Press described the incident as “a fight centered around money…”. Time magazine called the meeting a “corporate greenwash bonanza.” Remember when Enron CEO Jeff Skilling told his coal chiefs about the company’s interest and cause in green energy? “Mike, we're a green energy company, but green means money.”
complained Anya Kamenetz, “award-winning journalist, former NPR correspondent, author of five nonfiction books, speaker and consultant.”
The New York Times should be deeply embarrassed to be rooting for an oil executive and architect of Plan 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s Kevin Roberts, during Climate Week. Every drop of oil and gas remains in the ground. She considers bullshit, non-scalable, non-scalable direct air capture technology her hobby. This is textbook predatory procrastination. Why does it deserve to be played publicly? I commend Climate Rebels and everyone working to revoke the social license of the fossil fuel industry.
She added in her comments:
To be clear, in the name of journalism, I have no problem with The New York Times interviewing oil company executives, preferably in the context of an accountability story about their lies, persecution of enemies, and greenwashing. But having someone on stage during Climate Week, holding canapés at a fancy event, is not news coverage. At best it’s journalism-adjacent.
Second, yes, we all use plastic, gasoline, and jet fuel today, and we may be using them next year too. My idea is to nationalize the oil companies and commit to a strong production reduction program while putting resources into real, promising alternatives. Many uses of plastic could be banned immediately. Commercial air flights may become more expensive and flight schedules may be reduced. ETC.
nationalization? Make transportation more expensive? What about consumers? taxpayer? Energy freedom? My comment on all this was deleted by Ms. Kamenetz. But note how the climate movement deals with a host of problems of its own making. As reality continues to bite back, the anti-CO2 movement will have fewer and fewer defenders, which is the subject of tomorrow’s post.
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