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[newrepublic.com] ... Kate Aronoff/December 7, 2021


Conservatives Have a New Bogeyman: Critical Energy Theory.


"The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, held its States and Nation Policy Summit in San Diego last week. The event—attended by a mix of state legislators and representatives from the private sector—featured spirited discussions about a potential Constitutional Convention, as well as lots of excitement about Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin’s attempt to galvanize voters around “critical race theory,” the once-obscure academic subfield that right-wingers now regularly rant about, claiming that CRT has infected the K-12 curriculum and that teaching students accurate facts about slavery and segregation is somehow unfair to white people."


"Now ALEC seems gearing up for a similar move on energy policy. The group’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force, which met on Friday, voted to back two pieces of model legislation that portray climate policy—even climate policy that doesn’t exist yet—as unfairly discriminating against fossil fuel companies."


"16 extraction-heavy, Republican-controlled states just before Thanksgiving, pledged "collective action" against "reckless attacks on law-abiding energy companies." ... The "Energy Discrimination Elimination Act," voted through unanimously on Friday, directs states to compile a list of entities that are supposedly boycotting fossil fuel companies, explicitly citing banks that are “increasingly denying financing to creditworthy fossil energy companies solely for the purpose of decarbonizing their lending portfolios and marketing their environmental credentials.” ... Listed companies that don’t stop “boycotting energy companies” within 90 days would then be subject to losing state contracts or investments."


"The legislation is modeled explicitly on “anti-BDS” bills written to counter the Boycott, Divest, Sanctions call from Palestinian civil society groups for economic actions against firms complicit in the Israeli occupation there. But such measures have proven controversial, and in some cases unconstitutional."


"Like fury around critical race theory, though, the Republicans’ war on critical energy theory doesn’t necessarily need to be rooted in reality. It just needs to get people riled up."


"Hey, this methane flare has rights too!"

Question: What thoughts do you have about it?

AnonySchmoose 8 Dec 16
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unconscionable, kill the planet for profits

bobwjr Level 10 Dec 16, 2021

It is doubtful that they ever felt any integrity.
They feel only profit and shareholders --
the only important things on 'their earth'.

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Oy! This is not what Earth needs to sustain our goofy a$$e$.

How frustrating for us to be the objects of their indifference toward earth.

@AnonySchmoose Their indifferences have been frustrating for thousands of years.

@rainmanjr
Exactly... am feeling equally outraged.

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More stupidity. How unsurprising.

Exactly my feeling about their stupid indifference.

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Screwballs, subhuman trash.

Could not have stated things clearer.

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