The NY Times is Very Upset
How to Abandon Your Climate Commitments and Get Away With It
Not so long ago, many of America’s biggest companies were making bold promises about saving the planet.
They pledged to stop polluting, get off fossil fuels and use recyclable materials. Some even promised to reinvent their core business practices, speaking aspirationally about a new, more sustainable economy.
These goals were set, and trumpeted, by the companies making the phone in your pocket, the shoes on your feet and the food in your fridge — and others. Coca-Cola, a company that produces as much plastic trash as any in the world, even began talking about “a world without waste.”
Over the past few years, however, many of these environmental commitments have evaporated.
Some companies have changed the way they measure progress. Others postponed their deadlines for making change. One company said its customers simply didn’t care about the issue anymore.
Really, most companies were only paying lip-service to the climate cult to get the cultists off their backs. Many had DEI offices/HR who were chock full of nutbags who pushed this garbage on the companies, but, really, mostly lip-service. But, things changed
Under President Biden, there was extraordinary pressure for big business to address climate change. The Trump administration is now pushing companies to abandon climate goals and encouraging the use of more oil, gas and coal, claiming that environmental initiatives are “woke” distractions that hamper economic growth.
But the waning climate ambition across corporate America often has an even simpler explanation: Many companies have concluded it is simply too difficult and too expensive to drastically reduce planet warming emissions, especially at a moment of rising energy demand.
With Biden being gone and the Trump admin wacking governmental climate cultism companies are truly just saying “we don’t care about this scam anymore, and we don’t care if people know it.” But, the part about it being just too darned expensive is illuminating, eh?
Read: Bummer: Companies Are Blowing Off Their Climate Doom Commitments »
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Ski Portillo is battening down the hatches.
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