We are all focused on the novel coronavirus right now. It has upset our lives, threatened our lives and the safety and lives of our friends and loved ones. It has blown up the world economy and drawn bright red circles around the flaws in our government. But COVID-19 only threatens one species: us. Anthropogenic…
Blackrock is the world’s largest financial manager. It administers about US $6.3 trillion in assets. That’s a lot of dough, not matter how you measure it. Blackrock has long talked about focusing on “sustainability” but its portfolios have always included fossil fuel industries. Blackrock has talked the talk but not walked the walk. But there are signs…
Well, November certainly didn’t take long to blow by. It’s already time for WC’s month-end retrospective, followup and clean up. At least for a given definition of “clean up.” WC commented recently on his retirement as a lawyer. Some readers have jumped to the conlcusion that also means the retirement of this blog. No, no,…
A little over a month ago, WC did a take down on Koch Brothers’ flak Rick Whitbeck. Well, Whitbeck has another opinion piece in the Anchorage Daily News, this time attacking Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D, New York) and her Green New Deal because it would disrupt Alaska’s oil and gas extraction economy. As a piece of…
It seems increasingly likely that humanity’s inaction in the face of the existential threat of anthropogenic climate change means we are going to have more than than the 2° Celsius of global temperature increase that climatologists regarded as manageable. So, without in any way conceding that humanity’s CO2 emissions must be reduced, it’s time to…
September flew by in a cloud of sulfurous Trump fumes and tweets. It’s already time for WC to dabble in very nearly responsible blogging, if not journalism, and take a look back at earlier posts, subjects that didn’t make posts and miscellany, large and small. As always, the Magpie Principle applies. Other media have noticed…
Rick Whitbeck is a well-paid flack for the Koch Brothers and their anti-climate change agenda. He’s the former field director for Stand for Alaska, a group opposing the Ballot 1 Measure designed to protect salmon habitat in the state. Whitbeck’s boss is Daniel Turner, the former director of strategic communications at the Charles Koch Institute. Before…
