Tuesday, November 17, 2015
The Political Correctness of 350
The political correctness of 350 groupies is amazing. Still promoting fossil fuel divestment -- two years after it was openly known that public disinvestment only enabled privatization of publicly-traded shares. Now these idiots engage in divestment shaming as self-congratulatory entertainment. Meanwhile, 350s sugar daddy, Warren Buffett, and his pal Bill Gates continue to make a bundle from railroading Tar Sands bitumen and Bakken Shale crude.
Divestment by universities and pension funds, it should be noted, did not change behavior on either Wall Street or Main Street. North Americans, including Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben's mindless followers at 350, still guzzle fossil fuels like nowhere else in the world. All those SUV trips shopping, electronic kilowatting, and 747 flights eco-touristing really add up!
Maybe that's why 350 is so popular with privileged North Americans and Europeans. It's always somebody else who has to live a life of deprivation. Not them.
Divestment by universities and pension funds, it should be noted, did not change behavior on either Wall Street or Main Street. North Americans, including Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben's mindless followers at 350, still guzzle fossil fuels like nowhere else in the world. All those SUV trips shopping, electronic kilowatting, and 747 flights eco-touristing really add up!
Maybe that's why 350 is so popular with privileged North Americans and Europeans. It's always somebody else who has to live a life of deprivation. Not them.
